Advancing Raymond Martin's Syntax Criticism
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https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/19615Keywords:
Semitic influence, Septuagint Greek, Raymond Martin, syntax criticismAbstract
This article considers more carefully Raymond Martin’s methodology, syntax criticism, proposes a renewal of Martin’s work using more recent textual data, and proposes changes to Martin’s method that include discarding certain criteria and proposing newer ones. The advances on Martin’s work by Karen Jobes are also evaluated and refined. After thorough examination of Martin and Jobes’s prior labours, entirely novel translation Greek control data for Septuagint preposition ratios are provided, as well as entirely novel data for the frequencies of kai and de in Septuagint texts. It is hoped that these data become standardised translation Greek control data.
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