An alternative Rendering of Genesis 1:28 in the Asante-Twi Bible
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https://doi.org/10.21703/2735-6345202527012772Palavras-chave:
Genesis, blessing, be fruitful, subdue, have dominion, Asante-Twi BibleResumo
The goal of textual criticism is not to recover “the text” but to step into the context of the original author and audience, in order to ascertain what might have been the author’s intent and the understanding of the audience and to present a better text consequently. This is achieved through scientific analysis and exegetical endeavours. This paper presents a report on an exegetical study of the rendering of Genesis 1:28 in the Asante-Twi Bibles. The findings indicate that keywords such as bārāk, pārāh, kāḇaš and rāḏāh, which have not been suitably translated, can be better rendered. As a result, having undertaken contextual, textual, semantic and morphosyntactical analysis of the source text and compared with the target text, an alternative rendering of the text has been proposed for Asante-Twi translators and readers.
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