The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the BibleThis translation of the second - revised and expanded - Spanish edition deals fully with the origins of the Septuagint. It discusses its linguistic and cultural frame, its relation to the Hebrew text and to the Qumran documents, the transmission of the Septuagint and its reception by Jews and Christians. It includes the early revisions, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Christian recensions and particularly Origen's Hexapla, Biblical commentaries and catenae, as well as other issues such as the relation of the Septuagint to Hellenism, to the New Testament and to Early Christian Literature. It is a comprehensive introduction to the Septuagint, the first translation and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and to other Greek versions of the Bible. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details. |
Contents
Select Bibliography | 16 |
The Letter of PseudoAristeas and Other Ancient Sources | 35 |
Modern Interpretations of the Origins of | 53 |
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Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism | 79 |
The Double Texts of the Greek Bible | 85 |
a Ancient Witnesses | 123 |
Theodotion and the кaiye Revision | 142 |
Hesychian Recension or Alexandrian Group | 239 |
Other Revisions | 247 |
Biblical Quotations | 258 |
Aporiai and Biblical Commentaries | 274 |
The Literature of the Catenae | 287 |
The Religion of the Septuagint and Hellenism | 305 |
The Septuagint and the New Testament | 320 |
The Septuagint and Early Christian Literature | 338 |
Other Ancient Versions | 155 |
Jewish Versions into Mediaeval and Modern Greek | 174 |
Transmission and Textual History | 191 |
Origens Hexapla | 204 |
The Lucianic Recension | 223 |
Glossary of Technical Terms | 363 |
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Abbreviations | 389 |
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