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Collected Studies on the Septuagint: From Language to Interpretation and Beyond

By Jan Joosten

Book information

Publisher
Mohr Siebeck
Year
2012
ISBN
3161517334, 9783161517334
ISSN
0940-4155
Google Books ID
woZIz5ib3S8C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2475202 bytes)
Series
Forschungen zum Alten Testament 83
Pages
X+246\257
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-03-02 20:14:52

Description

In this volume Jan Joosten brings together seventeen articles, published in journals and collective volumes between 1996 and 2008, with one unpublished essay. In these essays he deals mainly with questions of language and interpretation in the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Many of Jan Joostenâ€TMs studies take their point of departure in one or the other striking features in the language of the Septuagint, propose a theory explaining its peculiarity, and go on from there to relate the linguistic phenomenon to wider historical, exegetical or theological issues. Others deal with problems of method in establishing the historical background of the version, its relation to the Hebrew source text, and its theology. Taken as a whole, Jan Joosten offers an original contribution to a number of contemporary debates on the Old Greek version. Notably in this book he addresses from various perspectives the questions of who the translators were and what they tried to do.

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