Style and cohesion in the Septuagint's kaige tradition: Ecclesiastes and Lamentations

《七十士译本》（Septuagint corpus）是希伯来圣经文本的最早希腊语版本的集合。它是最早的圣经翻译的例子，希腊化犹太教的核心文学产品，新约的一个有影响力的来源，后古典希腊语的一个重要来源。作为一个大型翻译语料库（总计超过50万字），它对于增强我们对希腊罗马世界翻译的理解以及告知我们如何解释翻译的希腊文本是非常宝贵的。我的研究将把语言学的问题和方法运用到这个语料库中最有趣的现象之一：所谓的凯歌翻译传统。这是一个传统的文本，共享一个高度同构或“字面”翻译方法，密切遵循希伯来语的精确措辞（Kreuzer 2021）。这种方法经常导致希腊语的风格，这种风格被各种各样地描述为笨拙，野蛮，calqued，贫穷，unidiomatic甚至无法理解（姆克林2000;拉亚克2009）。本文将通过对这一传统下的希腊语译本的具体文体特征和衔接手段的语言学分析来重新评估这些判断。这将丰富我们对希腊罗马世界圣经翻译的理解，以及早期犹太教语言使用和宗教认同之间的关系。

The Septuagint corpus is a collection of the earliest Greek versions of Hebrew biblical texts. It is the earliest example of biblical translation, the central literary product of Hellenistic Judaism, an influential source for the New Testament, and an important source of post-classical Greek. As a large translation corpus (over 500,000 words in total), it is invaluable for enhancing our understanding of translation in the Graeco-Roman world and for informing how we interpret translated Greek texts. My research will bring linguistic questions and methods to bear on one of the most intriguing phenomena within this corpus: the so-called kaige translation tradition. This is a tradition of texts which share a highly isomorphic or 'literal' translation method, closely following the precise wording of the Hebrew (Kreuzer 2021). This method often results in a style of Greek, which has been variously described as awkward, barbaric, calqued, poor, unidiomatic or even unintelligible (McLean 2000; Rajak 2009). My resarch will reassess such judgements through a linguistic analysis of specific stylistic features and cohesion devices in Greek translations from this tradition. This will enrich our understanding of biblical translation in the Graeco-Roman world and the relationship between language use and religious identity in early Judaism.