Not Lost in Translation: Hebrew Wordplay in Greek

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How does Moses make his coffee? Hebrews it. What kind of man was Boaz before he was married? Ruthless. Bible puns are like pineapple on pizza: Some people love them, and some people find them absolutely abhorrent.

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Footnotes

1. See, e.g., Harvey Minkoff, “Problems of Translation,” Bible Review, August 1988.

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All data is derived from my published dissertation, Hebrew Wordplay and Septuagint Translation Technique in the Fourth Book of the Psalter, Library of Biblical Studies 682; Texts and Versions of the Hebrew Bible 1 (London: T & T Clark, 2019).