The Septuagint South of Alexandria : Essays on the Greek Translations and Other Ancient Versions by the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA) (Vetus Testamentum, Supplements)

Cook, Johann (EDT)/ Kotzé, Gideon R. (EDT)

Brill（2022/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 486 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004521377
• DDC分類 221.48

Full Description

This volume tackles topics relevant to the study of the Septuagint and related fields of research, such as the historical context of the Greek translations and texts, their anthropology, theology, language, and reception, as well as the comparison of the Septuagint with other ancient translations and texts of its intellectual environment. The authors make contributions to the study of the texts themselves, their themes, and theories in modern research on the ancient artefacts.

Contents

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Contributors

Part 1: Historical Context of the Septuagint

1 The Septuagint South of Alexandria—in Antiquity

 Siegfried Kreuzer

2 The Historical Context of the LXX and Its Hebrew Vorlage

 Russell E. Gmirkin

3 Platonism and Judaism: Have They Ever Met? Reflections on Biblical Creation Stories

 Johann Cook

4 Euripides' Ion and 1 Samuel 1: Tradition-Historical and Cultural Critical Remarks

 Evangelia G. Dafni

Part 2: Narrative Books of the Septuagint

5 The Man Who Would Be King: Reading Haman's Edict (LXX Esther Addition B) through the Lens of Social Identity Theory

 Helen Efthimiadis-Keith (AKA Keith-van Wyk)

6 Virtue, Asceticism, and the Masculinized Woman: Judith in Early Christian Greek and Latin Interpretations from the Second to the Fifth Century CE

 Chris L. de Wet

7 A Greimassian Analysis of the Function of the Fundamental Values in the Story of Daniel and the Priests of Bel in the LXX Additions to Daniel

 Risimati S. Hobyane

Part 3: Wisdom Books of the Septuagint

8 De (Pro)verb(i)is Raris: The Greek Rendering of Hebrew Absolute Hapax Legomena in LXX Proverbs

 Bryan Beeckman

9 Wise and All-Surpassing Kings: Two Shared Themes in LXX Ecclesiastes 1:16 and the Standard Babylonian Version of the Gilgameš Epic

 Gideon R. Kotzé

10 Atonement and Forgiveness in (the Book of) Sirach: A Survey on the Usage of ἐξιλάσκομαι/ἐξιλασμός

 Wolfgang Kraus

part 4: Anthropology and Theology

11 Anthropology in the Greek Psalter

 Martin Rösel

12 Divine Distinctiveness in Greek Exodus (With Special Focus on the Plague Narrative)

 Larry Perkins

13 Who and What Is a Hebrew Deity? Reflecting on Certain Hebrew and Greek Self-Declarations and Expressions

 Peter Nagel

14 "Joint Human-Angelic Praise" in Old Greek Daniel and 4QSabbah Shirot: Early Evidence of Merkebah Mysticism?

 Annette H. M. Evans

15 Josephus, the New Testament, and the Talmud: towards Reconstructing the Theology of the Sadducees

 Nicholas P. L. Allen

part 5: Septuagint and Other Ancient Translations

16 The Biblical Hebrew Idiom "Fill the Hand" and Its Translation in the Septuagint, Peshitta and Targums

 Douglas T. Mangum

17 Life for the Righteous: Perspectives on the Text(s) and Interpretation(s) of Habakkuk 2:1-4 in Ancient Textual Witnesses

 Gert T. M. Prinsloo

18 Translating Hebrew Poetry: Ezekiel 19 in the Septuagint as an Example

 Herrie F. van Rooy

19 Masks in Bible, Targum, and Talmud: An Investigative Study

 Gudrun E. Lier

part 6: Language of the Septuagint

20 Generative Syntax and Septuagint Greek: A Preliminary Analysis of the Quantifier πᾶς

 Jacobus A. Naudé and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé

Index of Ancient Sources