The SeptuagintJennifer Dines provides an introductory survey of current scholarship on the Greek Bible - the Septuagint. She outlines its origins in the third to first centuries BCE, going on to trace its subsequent history to the fifth century CE. The Septuagint's relationship with the standard Hebrew text and its translational characteristics are examined, as is its value as a collection with its own literary and exegetical character. The Septuagint is shown to be an important source for biblical studies (both Old and New Testament), to make a distinctive contribution to the history of biblical interpretation, and to be of considerable interest for understanding the early development of both Judaism and Christianity. |
Contents
1 What is the Septuagint? | 1 |
Facts and Fictions | 27 |
Questions and Issues | 41 |
from Philo to Jerome | 63 |
5 Textual Developments to the Fifth Century CE | 81 |
6 Language and Style | 109 |
from the Beginnings to the Present Day | 131 |
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Alexandria Amos Antiochian apocryphal Aquila Arist Aristeas Aristobulus Barthélemy Bible d'Alexandrie biblical BIOSCS Chapter Christian writers Commentary context culture dating debate Demetrius Demetrius of Phalerum Dorival and Munnich earliest early editions Egypt Esdras especially Eusebius evidence exegesis exegetical Fernández Marcos 2000 fragments Genesis Göttingen Greek Bible Greek text Greek versions Greek-speaking Harl Hebrew Bible Hebrew text Hellenistic Jewish Hellenistic Judaism Hexapla Holladay important instance interlinear interpretation Jellicoe Jeremiah Jerome Jews Jobes and Silva Josephus Judaism kaige Koine Koine Greek language Letter of Aristeas literal literary liturgical Lucianic LXX's Maccabees manuscripts Minor Prophets original translation Palestinian papyri passages patristic Pentateuch perhaps Philadelphus Philo Pietersma Psalms pseudepigrapha Ptolemy question Qumran rabbinic readings Recension rendering revision scholars Scripture scrolls second century BCE Septuagint source-text sources style Swete Testament textual criticism Theodotion third century tradition translation technique translator's Vaticanus Vita Mosis writings