... periphrasis translation technique imperfect indicatives Greek Penteteuch Masoretic Text Hebrew influence bilingual interference This chapter supplies a statistical analysis of the ΜΤ formal matches for all 18,953 instances of verbal forms in the Greek Pentateuch. Interpretation of the data follows...

...1 Introduction 1.1 Bilingual Interference Bilingual interference refers to a language user inadvertently drawing on two rather than one language when putting their ideas into words (Adams 2003 p. 426; Grosjean 2001 p. 6; Myers-S­ cotton 2006 p. 242). The resultant wording may be incorrect...

...Chapter 1 defines and illustrates the concept of bilingual interference, reviews previous research on traces of bilingualism in the writings from Egypt, and outlines difficulties when dealing with the documentary papyri as a source. Features that have been labelled bilingual interference...