In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes
Subtitle: studies in the Biblical text in honour of Anneli Aejmelaeus
By: Kristin De Troyer, T. Michael Law, and Marketta Liljeström (eds)
Series: Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology -- 72; Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology -- 72.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 749
ISBN-13: 9789042930414
Subjects: Bibel; Bible; Textkritik; Rezeption; Septuagint; Versions; Dead Sea scrolls; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Textual Criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with two German and one French contributions.
Table of contents: title: Preface : notes from the three; title: Section 1. The Septuagint, origins and translation. Scribes, translators, and the formation of authoritative scripture / Benjamin G. Wright; title: The concept of the translator(s) in the contemporary study of the Septuagint / Joachim Schaper; title: The Septuagint translation of Genesis as the first scripture translation / Emanuel Tov; title: Women labouring / Takamitsu Muraoka; title: Accuracy and idiom : the renderings of mittahat in the Septuagint Pentateuch / John A.L. Lee; title: Renderings of the Hebrew semipreposition [Hebrew word] in 1-4 reigns / Raija Sollamo; title: Das Praesens historicum in den griechischen Samuelbüchern / Raimund Wirth; title: The Greek rendering of Hebrew hapax legomena in LXX Proverbs and Job : a clue to the question of a single translator? / Bénédicte Lemmelijn; title: The use and non-use of the particle Oun in the Septuagint / Michael N. van der Meer; title: Does the Septuagint translator speak about the end of times? : a study of eis to teloc, dynedis and dyniēmi / Staffan Olofsson; title: Mellō-auxiliary verb construction in the Septuagint / Anssi Voitila; title: To settle and to dwell : on lexical variation in the old Greek of Isaiah / Arie van der Kooij; title: Section 2. The Septuagint, and the versions. textual criticism and textual history. Textual variants in Joshua-Kings involving the terms 'people' and 'Israel' / Julio Trebolle Barrera; title: Old Latin text of Josh 5:4-6 and its contribution to the textual history of the Greek Joshua / Seppo Sipilä; title: The relationship between SAM-MT, 4QSAM[superscript A], and CHR and the case of 2 SAM 2 / Zipora Talshir; title: Between the search in the word and the asking to God : two mantic verbs in the textual history of Samuel-Kings / Andrés Piquer Otero & Pablo Torijano Morales; title: The unique Messiah : a tendency in favour of David's kingship in the MT of Samuel / Philppe Hugo; title: David and Saul's daughters / Christian Seppänen; title: Is there a place for conjectures in a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible? : Reflections in preparation of a critical text of 1 Kings / Jan Josten; title: Yahweh, the sun-god, wants a new temple : theological corrections in 1Kgs 8:12-13/3Ref 8:52[superscript a] / Juha Pakkala; title: Old Greek un semi-kaige : zur Frage hebraisierender Bearbeitung in den Nicth-kaige-Abschnitten der Samuel- und Königebücher / Siegfried Kreuzer; title: Ezekiel in Symmachus : textual criticism / Johan Lust; title: Does a shorter Hebrew parent text underlie Old Greek Job? / Claude Cox; title: The Aristarchian signs in the textual tradition of LXX Ecclesiastes / Peter J. Gentry; title: Mal 3:22-24 (4:1-6) in the Hebrew and Greek : some remarks concerning its function in the canon / Hans Ausloos; title: Section 3. The Septuagint in New Testament and Christian use. Genesis 47:31 and Hebrews 11:21 / Georg A. Walser; title: The books of Kings as an intertext of revelation / Tuukka Kauhanen; title: Ézéchiel 2 dans la version de la Septante : notes philologiques et patristiques / Katrin Hauspie; title: Malachias the monk on the numerical Proverbs : sources and exegetical tradition / Reinhart Ceulemans; title: Section 4. The Septuagint in Jewish tradition. The tabernacle accounts in LXX Exodus and their reception in Hellenistic Judaism / Alison Salvesen; title: Seeking 'the Septuagint' in a scroll dependent world / Robert A. Kraft; title: Section 5. Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls. Since when do prophets write? / Martti Nissinen; title: What is a variant edition? : Perspectives from the Qumran scrolls / George J. Brooke; title: Intentional variant editions or sporadic isolated insertions in 4QSAM[superscript a] and the Masoretic text? / Eugene Ulrich; title: The character of Leviticus traditions at Qumran / Sarianna Metso; title: Conceptualizing GER in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Jutta Jokiranta; title: Defining authority / Hanne von Weissenberg.