Collected studies on the Septuagint
Subtitle: from language to interpretation and beyond
By: Jan Joosten
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 83; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 83.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng; grc; heb
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9783161517334
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Translating and interpreting; Bible
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English, with some text in Greek and Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Translation technique.; title: Elaborate similes, Hebrew and Greek : a study in Septuagint translation technique --; title: A Septuagintal translation technique in the Minor Prophets : the elimination of verbal repetitions --; title: The translators' knowledge of Hebrew.; title: On the Septuagint translators' knowledge of Hebrew --; title: The knowledge and practice of Hebrew in the Hellenistic period : Qumran and the Septuagint --; title: On Aramaizing renderings in the Septuagint --; title: Biblical Hebrew as mirrored in the Septuagint : the question of influence from spoken Hebrew --; title: Source-language oriented remarks on the lexicography of the Greek versions of the Bible --; title: [Ḥsd], "benevolence", and [eleos], "pity" : reflections on their lexical equivalence in the Septuagint --; title: The Dead Sea scrolls and the Septuagint in mutual illumination --; title: Interpretation.; title: Exegesis in the Septuagint version of Hosea --; title: The impact of the Septuagint Pentateuch on the Greek Psalms --; title: To see God : conflicting exegetical tendencies in the Septuagint --; title: Divine omniscience and the theology of the Septuagint --; title: Historical milieu.; title: Language as symptom : linguistic clues to the social background of the Seventy --; title: The original language and historical milieu of the book of Judith --; title: The Septuagint as a source of information on Egyptian Aramaic in the Hellenistic period --; title: Reflections on the 'interlinear paradigm' in Septuagintal studies.