A question of methodology
Subtitle: collected essays on the Septuagint
By: Albert Pietersma ; edited by Cameron Boyd-Taylor
Contributors: Boyd-Taylor, Cameron
Series: Biblical tools and studies -- volume 14; Biblical tools and studies -- v. 14.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9789042925946
Subjects: Bibel; Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Description: Albert Pietersma has long been known as a champion of rigorous methodology. The present volume brings together under one cover his key papers on the critical study of the Septuagint. Together they present an evolving hermeneutic of translation that promises to reconcile descriptive analysis of the text (which aims at explanation) with the task of interpretation (which aims at understanding). The division of the volume into three parts corresponds roughly to three distinct stages in Pietersma's published work. The text critical studies of Part I lay the foundations for the exegetical investigations of Part II, which in turn open onto the hermeneutic discussion of more recent years, represented in Part III. The bulk of the material deals with the Greek Psalter, which has been a primary focus for Pietersma. This gives the contents of the volume a high-degree of thematic unity; it will no doubt prove invaluable for those currently working on the Psalter. At the same time, the breadth of Pietersma's scholarship, and the significance of the methodological and hermeneutic issues he addresses, will make the book an important resource for all biblical scholars and students of early Judaism and Christianity, especially those working on the Hebrew-Greek translations of antiquity.
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Establishing the text. The Greek Psalter : a question of methodology and syntax; title: David in the Greek Psalms; title: Kyrios or tetragram : a new quest for the original Septuagint; title: Septuagint research : a plea for a return to basic issues; title: Ra 2110 (P. Bodmer XXIV) and the text of the Greek Psalter; title: Articulation in the Greek Psalms : the evidence of Papyrus Bodmer XXIV; title: The present state of the critical text of the Greek Psalter; title: part II. Exegesis in the Greek Psalter. A review of Schaper's Eschatology; title: A new paradigm for addressing old questions : the relevance of the interlinear model for the study of the Septuagint; title: Exegesis and liturgy in the superscriptions of the Greek Psalter; title: Septuagintal exegesis and the superscriptions of the Greek Psalter; title: Exegesis in the Septuagint : possibilities and limits (the Psalter as a case in point); title: Messianism and the Greek Psalter : in search of the Messiah; title: part III. Towards a principled reading of the Greek. LXX and DTS : a new Archimedean point for Septuagint studies?; title: Translating a translation : with examples from the Greek Psalter; title: Text-production and text-reception : Psalm 8 in Greek; title: A response to Muraoka's critique of interlinearity; title: A panel presentation on Ronald Troxel's LXX-Isaiah; title: Beyond literalism : interlinearity revisited.