Full Description
The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of immense importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. The renderings of individual books attest to the religious interests of the substantial Jewish population of Egypt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and to the development of the Greek language in its Koine phase. The narrative ascribing the Septuagint's origins to the work of seventy translators in Alexandria attained legendary status among both Jews and Christians. The Septuagint was the version of Scripture most familiar to the writers of the New Testament, and became the authoritative Old Testament of the Greek and Latin Churches. In the early centuries of Christianity it was itself translated into several other languages, and it has had a continuing influence on the style and content of biblical translations.
The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint features contributions from leading experts in the field considering the history and manuscript transmission of the version, and the study of translation technique and textual criticism. The collection provides surveys of previous and current research on individual books of the Septuagint corpus, on alternative Jewish Greek versions, the Christian 'daughter' translations, and reception in early Jewish and Christian writers. The Handbook also includes several conversations with related fields of interest such as New Testament studies, liturgy, and art history.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Alison Salvesen: Introduction
PART I: FIRST THINGS
1: Cameron Boyd-Taylor: What Is the Septuagint?
2: Scott Mandelbrote: The History of Septuagint Studies: Early Modern Western Europe
3: Felix Albrecht: The History of Septuagint Studies: Editions of the Septuagint
PART II: THE CONTEXT OF THE SEPTUAGINT
4: James K. Aitken: The Social and Historical Setting of the Septuagint: Palestine and the Diaspora
5: Livia Capponi: The Social and Historical Setting of the Septuagint: Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
6: Trevor V. Evans: The Nature of Septuagint Greek: Language and Lexicography
7: Mogens Müller: Theology in the Septuagint?
8: Dries De Crom: The Letter of Aristeas
9: Michael P. Theophilos: Manuscripts, Papyri, and Epigraphy: Papyri and Epigraphy Relating to the Septuagint
10: Luciano Bossina: Manuscripts, Papyri, and Epigraphy: Manuscripts of the Septuagint from Uncials to Minuscules
11: Hans Ausloos: Translation Technique
PART III: THE CORPUS OF THE SEPTUAGINT
12: Dirk Büchner: The Pentateuch
13: Natalio Fernández Marcos: Joshua and Judges
14: Anneli Aejmelaeus: The Books of Samuel
15: Tuukka Kauhanen, Andrés Piquer Otero, Timo Tekoniemi, and Pablo Torijano: The Books of Kings
16: Laurence Vianès: Chronicles/Paralipomena
17: Rodrigo F. de Sousa: Isaiah
18: Matthieu Richelle: Jeremiah and Baruch
19: Katrin Hauspie: Ezekiel
20: Olivier Munnich: Daniel, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon: Old Greek and Theodotion
21: Cécile Dogniez: The Twelve Minor Prophets
22: Robert J. V. Hiebert: Megillot (Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther)
23: Staffan Olofsson: The Psalter
24: Lorenzo Cuppi: Proverbs
25: Maria Gorea: The Book of Job
26: Alison Salvesen: Deuterocanonical and Apocryphal Books
PART IV: THE SEPTUAGINT IN ITS JEWISH CONTEXT
27: Sarah J. K. Pearce: Philo and the Septuagint
28: Tessa Rajak: Josephus and the Septuagint
29: Eugene Ulrich: The Scrolls from the Judean Desert and the Septuagint
30: Siegfried Kreuzer: Kaige and 'Theodotion'
31: Giuseppe Veltri with Alison Salvesen: Aquila
32: Michaël N. van der Meer: Symmachus
33: Bradley John Marsh, Jr.: Quinta, Sexta, and Septima
34: Bradley John Marsh, Jr.: The Samaritan Pentateuch in Greek
35: Julia G. Krivoruchko: The Constantinople Pentateuch and Medieval Jewish Use of Greek Biblical Texts
PART V: THE SEPTUAGINT AS CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE
36: David Lincicum: Citations in the New Testament
37: Tuukka Kauhanen: The Proto-Lucianic and Antiochian Text
38: Peter J. Gentry: Origen's Hexapla
39: John A. L. Lee: The Use of the Septuagint in the Liturgy and Lectionary of the Greek Orthodox Church
40: Reinhart Ceulemans: Reception of the Septuagint among Greek Christian Writers
41: Michael Graves: The Septuagint in the Latin World
PART VI: THE SEPTUAGINT IN TRANSLATION
42: Pierre-Maurice Bogaert: The Vetus Latina (Old Latin)
43: Pablo A. Torijano: Armenian, Georgian, and Church Slavonic Versions
44: Marketta Liljeström: The Syrohexapla
45: Andrés Piquer Otero: Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic Versions
46: Eberhard Bons: Modern Translations of the Septuagint
47: Bénédicte Lemmelijn: Textual Criticism
48: J. Ross Wagner: New Testament
49: John Barton: Christian Theology
50: Maja Kominko: Illustrated Manuscripts of the Septuagint
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