Oxford Scholarship Online: The Old Latin Gospels

The Old Latin Gospels A Study of their Texts and Language Burton, Philip Lecturer in Greek and Humanity (Latin), University of St Andrews Print publication date: 2000 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826988-5
6 Contextual Sensitivity doi:10.1093/0198269889.003.0006 Philip Burton Abstract: An analysis of the extent to which the Old Latin Gospels are characterized by literalism, based on a study of the extent to which the translators will vary their translations of given terms according to context. Factors such as Latin idiom and theological nuance are discussed. Keywords: Latin idiom, literalism, Old Latin, translation technique,