Because the presentation by Dr. Camilla Recalcati was recorded, and we were told that it will be made available online, it consider it better for her speak in detail for herself.
(Other recorded presentations by her are listed on worldcat.)
A putative scribe taking dictation adding domesticating translations on the fly is less probable imo than Recalcati's view.
As said above.
A related note.
A great scholar, linguist, and Duke teacher died in in 2024: Orval Wintermute. I was honored that he was on my dissertation committee.
His dissertation, directed by William Albright at Johns Hopkins, was on language borrowing in the other direction:
Semitic loanwords appearing in Egyptian texts from the New Kingdom,
Orval Stewart Wintermute
1959
English Book 10 plates, 259 leaves, 2 leaves 29 cm
Baltimore, Md.
(Other recorded presentations by her are listed on worldcat.)
A putative scribe taking dictation adding domesticating translations on the fly is less probable imo than Recalcati's view.
As said above.
A related note.
A great scholar, linguist, and Duke teacher died in in 2024: Orval Wintermute. I was honored that he was on my dissertation committee.
His dissertation, directed by William Albright at Johns Hopkins, was on language borrowing in the other direction:
Semitic loanwords appearing in Egyptian texts from the New Kingdom,
Orval Stewart Wintermute
1959
English Book 10 plates, 259 leaves, 2 leaves 29 cm
Baltimore, Md.
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