Douglas Mangum

Douglas Mangum has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2022, most of them on Ancient Greek, Hebrew & Aramaic, Semitic languages.

2 papers in our library · 2018–2022

current affiliationUniversity of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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Affiliations

University of the Free State · Bloemfontein, South Africa — current · 2018–2022 on 3 papers

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The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

The Biblical Hebrew idiom ‘lift the face’ in the Septuagint of Job (2018 · 2 citations)
Idioms are hard to translate because their meaning cannot be reliably assembled from their words. Mangum asks how ancient translators dealt with the Biblical Hebrew idiom "lift the face" (nasa panim). Its meaning ranges from proper respect and acceptance to improper favouritism, and context decides which reading…
Do Bashal and Hepsō really mean 'boil'? A preliminary study in the semantics of biblical Hebrew and Septuagint Greek (2022)
A short lexical study asking whether the root בשׁל (piel/pual) means "boil" or simply "cook", and whether the Septuagint's ἕψω means the same.