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Babel’s Dawn and the Primeval Language. Between Translation and Narrative, or the Syriac Version of an Old Jewish Tradition

  • Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
Humanities2012, 1(2), 104-116;https://doi.org/10.3390/h1020104

26 June 2012

The story of the Tower of Babel in Gn 11:1–9 gave rise to a rich literary tradition, in which the topos of the primeval language emerged. Whereas the interpretative tradition originating among the Jewish commentators upheld that the original language...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Translation as the Foundation for Humanistic Investigations)
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