Septuagint and reception
Subtitle: essays prepared for the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa
By: edited by Johann Cook.
Contributors: Cook, Johann.
Series: Supplements to the Vetus Testamentum -- v. 127
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004177253
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Versions -- Septuagint -- Congresses; Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses
Notes: Includes indexes.

Collection pf papers delivered at the first Conference of the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (ASSSA), Aug. 14-15, 2008 at the University of Stellenbosch.
Table of contents: title: The Septuagint; title: The old Greek text; title: The prayer of Azariah (Dan. 3) : sources and origin / Jan Joosten; title: On the role of external traditions in the Septuagint / Johann Cook; title: Psalms as magic revisited / Peter Arzt-Grabner; title: Examining the 'pluses' in the Greek Psalter : a study of the Septuagint translation qua communication / Randall X. Gauthier; title: The Greek translation of Lamentations : towards a more nuanced view of its 'literal' character / Gideon Kotze; title: Reception; title: The New Testament; title: Hab 2:3-4 in the Hebrew tradition and in the Septuagint, with its reception in the New Testament / Wolfgang Kraus; title: Quotations from the Minor Prophets in Hebrews / Gert J. Steyn; title: Ancient Egyptian elements in Hebrews 1 / Annette Evans; title: Differences between the MT and LXX contexts of Old Testament quotations in the New Testament : Isaiah 45:18-25 as a case study / Ronald H. Van Doer Bergh; title: From Josephus to Augustine and beyond; title: The use of names as evidence of the Septuagint as a source for Josephus' antiquities in books 1 to 5 / Lawrence Ronald Lincoln; title: Wisdom in the wisdom of Solomon and Cleanthes' hymn to Zeus / Johan C. Thom; title: The strange woman in Proverbs, LXX Proverbs and Aseneth / William Loader; title: The reception of the Susanna narrative (Dan. X!!!) in early Christianity / Chris L. de Wet; title: Augustine, Jerome and the Septuagint / Annemarie Kotze; title: Miscellanea; title: The treatment of Hapax Legomena in Mt. Ezekiel in the LXX Ezekiel and Peshitta : a comparative study / Harry F. Van Rooy; title: The role of metatexts in the translations of sacred texts : the case of the Book of Aristeas and the Septuagint / Jacobus A. Naude; title: Kingship ideology : a neglected element in Aristeas' charter myth for Alexandrian Judaism / Jonathan More; title: "Eunuchs", the ancient background of Eunouchos in the Septuagint / Sakkie Cornelius; title: Reading Judith as therapeutic narrative / Pierre Johan Jordaan; title: Performing Susanna : speech acts and other performative elements in Susanna / Eugene Coetzer; title: Reading narratives in the Septuagint : a discourse on method / Dick M. Kanonge.