Text-critical and hermeneutical studies in the Septuagint
By: edited by Johann Cook, Hermann-Josef Stipp
Series: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 157; Supplements to Vetus Testamentum -- v. 157.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9789004240780; 9789004241732
Subjects: Bible; Congresses; Septuagint; Versions; Criticism, interpretation; Textual Criticism; Hermeneutics
Description: "Text-critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint is the title of a bilateral research project conducted from 2009 to 2011 by scholars from the universities of Munich (Germany) and Stellenbosch (South Africa). The joint research enterprise was rounded off by a conference that took place from 31st of August {u2013} 2nd of September 2011 in Stellenbosch. It was held in cooperation with the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA). Scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, France, Canada and the USA, as well as South Africa, delivered papers focusing on the history of the LXX; translation technique and text history; textual criticism, and the reception of the Septuagint."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Text-critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint is the title of a bilateral research project conducted from 2009 to 2011 by scholars from the universities of Munich (Germany) and Stellenbosch (South Africa). The joint research enterprise was rounded off by a conference that took place from 31st of August - 2nd of September 2011 in Stellenbosch. It was held in cooperation with the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa (LXXSA). Scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, France, Canada and the USA, as well as South Africa, delivered papers focusing on the history of the LXX; translation technique and text history; textual criticism, and the reception of the Septuagint.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Seventeen contributions in English and 6 in German.
Table of contents: title: The Pentateuch in Greek and the authorities of the Jews  -- Arie van der Kooij; title: The biblical canon and beyond : theological and historical context of the codices of Alexandria  -- Heinz-Josef Fabry; title: Revisiting the rock : Tsur as a translation of Elohim in Deuteronomy and beyond  -- Melvin K.H. Peters; title: Judges 3:12-30 : an analysis of the Greek rendering of Hebrew wordplay  -- Hans Ausloos; title: B or not B? The place of Codex Vaticanus in textual history and in Septuagint research  -- Siegfried Kreuzer; title: Übersetzungstechnik und Textkritik in den Esdrasbüchern : Hendiadyoin, Doppelübersetzungen und Wiederholungsvariationen in 1 Esdr  -- Dieter Böhler SJ; title: In search of the Old Greek text of 4 Maccabees  -- Robert J.V. Hiebert; title: The relationship between the LXX versions of Proverbs and Job  -- Johann Cook; title: An analysis of the use of hebel as a metaphorical and symbolic device as interpreted in LXX Ecclesiastes  -- Lawrence Lincoln; title: The [theos] and [kyrios] terms in the Isaiah text and their impact on the New Testament : some observations  -- Peter Nagel; title: Revisiting the original Greek of Ezekiel 18  -- Harry F. van Rooy; title: Theology after the crisis : the Septuagint version of Daniel 8-12  -- Martin Rösel; title: The value of the Septuagint for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible as illustrated by the Oxford Hebrew Bible edition of 1 Kings  -- Jan Joosten; title: Gottesbildfragen in den Lesartendifferenzen zweischen dem masoretischen und dem alexandrinischen Text des Jeremiabuches  -- Hermann-Josef Stipp; title: Two difficult passages in the Hebrew texts of Lamentations 5 : text-critical analyses of the Greek translation  -- Gideon R. Kotzé; title: Amos 5:26 : Überlegungen zur Textkritik, Textgeschichte und Übersetzung eines schwierigen Bibelverses  -- Eberhard Bons; title: Die Schriftzitate im ersten Christentum und die Textgeschichte der Septuaginta : ein Wuppertaler Forschungsprojekt  -- Martin Karrer, Johannes de Vries; title: [Ioudith] und Iudith : Überlegungen zum Verhältnis der Judit-Erzählung in der LXX und der Vulgata  -- Barbara Schmitz; title: Psalms LXX and the Christian definition of space : examples based on inscriptions from central Asia Minor  -- Cilliers Breytenbach; title: The Testament of Job as an adaptation of LXX Job  -- Jessie Rogers; title: On kingship in Philo and the Wisdom of Solomon  -- Jonathan More; title: The text form of the Isaiah quotations in the Sondergut Matthäus compared to the Dead Sea scrolls, Masoretic text and Septuagint  -- Gert J. Steyn; title: Die Rezeption von Jer 38:31-34 (LXX) in Hebräer 8-10 und dessen Funktion in der Argumentation des Hebräerbriefes -- Wolfgang Kraus.