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grbs-7281	Brock, Sebastian	Aspects of Translation Technique in Antiquity	1979	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7797	284	52	The need for a living source of expositores explains why literal translations from Greek into Arabic never caught on; at first the standard Syriac techniques of literal translation were applied (often with Syriac as a halfway house), but the great translators like I:Iunain ibn Isf:1aq explicitly reject the verbum e verbo approach in favour of the sensus de sensu. Thus the literalist school of Greek biblical translation, culminating in the work of Aquila (early second century), is only a practical proposition in Palestine, where many Jews were bilingual: this is why the Egyptian Jews, to whom Hebrew was mostly unknown, chose to regard the Septuagint as inspired rather than to correct it and thus render it virtually unintelligible.	cache/grbs-7281.pdf	txt/grbs-7281.txt