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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, cartea 193

Johann Cook, Gideon R. Kotzé
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 oct 2022
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004521377
ISBN-10: 9004521372
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Vetus Testamentum, Supplements


Notă biografică

Johann Cook, DLitt (1982), Stellenbosch University, is emeritus professor in the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch University. He has published extensively on textual criticism, including the Septuagint. He specializes in ancient Near Eastern wisdom texts, especially the books of Proverbs.

Gideon R. Kotzé, DTh (2011), Stellenbosch University, is research professor in the Focus Area Ancient Texts at the Faculty of Theology, North-West University. His most recent monograph is Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations (Mohr Siebeck, 2020).

Cuprins

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