Translating Empire

Tell Fekheriyeh, Deuteronomy, and the Akkadian Treaty Tradition

by C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton

Extent: 357 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 135

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2019)

ISBN: 9783161590269

9.53 x 6.46 inches

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In this volume, C. L. Crouch and Jeremy M. Hutton offer a data-driven approach to translation practice in the Iron Age. The authors build on and reinforce Crouch’s conclusions in her former work about Deuteronomy and the Akkadian treaty tradition, employing Hutton’s “Optimal Translation” theory to analyze the Akkadian-Aramaic bilingual inscription from Tell Fekheriyeh. The authors argue that the inscription exhibits an isomorphic style of translation and only the occasional use of dynamic replacement sets. They apply these findings to other proposed instances of Iron Age translation from Akkadian into dialects of Northwest Semitic, including the relationship between Deuteronomy and the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon and the relationship between the treaty of Assur-nerari V with Mati?ilu and the Sefire treaties. The authors then argue that the lexical and syntactic changes in these cases diverge so significantly from the model established by Tell Fekheriyeh as to exclude the possibility that these treaties constitute translational relationships.

By (author) C L Crouch
By (author) Jeremy M Hutton

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