Reading the sealed book
Subtitle: old Greek Isaiah and the problem of Septuagint hermeneutics
By: J. Ross Wagner
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 88; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 88.
Publisher: Baylor University Press; Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waco; Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781602589803; 9783161525575
Subjects: Bible; Crítica e interpretación; Hermeneutik; Criticism, interpretation; Translating; Bibel; A.T.; Biblia; Septuaginta; Hermeneutics
Description: A translated text is laced with interpretive assumptions. By focusing on the Septuagint, J. Ross Wagner highlights the creative theology hidden in translation. His model couples patient investigation of the act of translation with careful attention to the translated texts' rhetorical features. Wagner focuses upon Isaiah's opening vision, clarifying its language, elucidating its character, and contextualizing its message. Reading the Sealed Book demonstrates how such translations serve as distinctive contributions to theology and reveal the contours of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic diaspora.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and indexes.

In English, with some passages in Arabic, Greek, French.
Table of contents: title: A book with seven seals : the problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics --; title: The shape of the controversy --; title: A theory of translation --; title: Describing translation : function, process, product --; title: The 'Acceptability' of a translation in the target culture --; title: Classifying translations --; title: Overview --; title: In search of the 'Typical' Septuagint translation : Aquila --; title: 'Atypical' translations in the Septuagint corpus --; title: OG reigns --; title: OG job --; title: Categorizing Old Greek Isaiah --; title: Characteristics of the translation --; title: Conflicting models of translation --; title: Breaking the seals : the plan of this study --; title: Opening the sealed book : interpreting a translated text --; title: A framework for interpretation --; title: The cultural encyclopedia --; title: The model reader and the intention of the text --; title: Model author and model translator --; title: Interpreting a translated text --; title: Investigating the process of translation --; title: Analyzing the product of translation --; title: Constructing the cultural encyclopedia --; title: Résumé : reading the sealed book --; title: "Give heed to God's Law" : translation and interpretation in OG Isaiah 1:1-20 --; title: Isaiah's opening vision --; title: Overview (1:1-31) --; title: Superscription (1:1) --; title: Israel accused (1:2-20) --; title: First address : "How long will you practice lawlessness? " (1:2-7) --; title: Summons to heaven and earth (1:2a) --; title: Complaint : Israel does not know me (1:2b-3) --; title: Woe to the disobedient children (1:4) --; title: Appeal to Israel : debilitated body, devastated land (1:5-7) --; title: Israel's response : lament and hope (1:8-9) --; title: Second address : "Give heed to God's law " (1.10-20) --; title: Summons to leaders and people (1:10) --; title: Complaint : barren worship, bloodstained hands (1:11-15) --; title: Call for repentance and social justice (1:16-17) --; title: Appeal to Israel : restoration or ruination (1:18-20) --; title: The purification of Zion : translation and interpretation in OG Isaiah 1:21-31 --; title: Zion's doom pronounced : trial by fire (1:21-31) --; title: The city cleansed (1:21-27) --; title: Lament for Zion (1:21-23) --; title: Rebellious rulers ruined, righteous rule restored (1:24-27) --; title: The lawless consumed (1:28-31) --; title: The end of the wicked (1:28) --; title: Withered tree, waterless garden (1:29-30) --; title: Excursus : translation of verbs in OG Isaiah 1-5 --; title: An unquenchable conflagration (1:31) --; title: Characterizing Old Greek Isaiah --; title: Constitutive character --; title: Linguistic acceptability --; title: Textual acceptability --; title: Literary acceptability --; title: Prospective function --; title: Isaiah with a Greek accent : interpretation in OG Isaiah 1 ---- Epilogue : open book, overflowing fountain-- Bibliography-- Index of ancient sources-- Index of modern authors.