Translating the Aqedah: Transitivity Patterns and the Construction of Agency in English Renderings of Genesis 22
The Aqedah, the binding of Isaac narrated in Genesis 22, is one of the Hebrew Bible's most theologically charged and linguistically dense passages. This study offers a systematic philological analysis of the Masoretic Hebrew text of Genesis 22:1–19 (BHS, 5th ed.), focusing on verbal morphology, participant marking thro...