Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts : the Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions / by Giuseppe Veltri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veltri, Giuseppe.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism 1384-2161 ; v. 109.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 1384-2161 ; v. 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Canon.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Translating.

Bible. Old Testament--Greek--Versions--Septuagint.

Bible. Old Testament.

Bible. Old Testament--Greek--Versions--Aquila.

Canon.

Aquila.

Bible. Ecclesiasticus.

Physical Description:

xi, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Summary:

The book deals with the field of decanonization of ancient traditions by the technique of deconstructing their original context; in particular: the process of canonization of the Greek Torah in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian tradition and its decanonization in Rabbinic literature; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies; the decanonization of the book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic literature. On the basis of his analysis, the author concludes that, if a canon is the ability of a text to produce and authorize commentary deconstructing its original context by generalization, de-canonization is the inverse way of contextualizing a 'canonical' text by reconstructing the supposed original context.

Contents:

Introduction: (De)canonization and Deconstruction 1

Torah as the Unique Gift: The Traditional Pattern and the Tripartite Canon 9

Canon as Censorship 14

Deconstruction and Decanonization: A Paradigmatic Model 17

The Present Study: Several Concrete Examples of Decanonization 22

1 Libraries and Canon: Ascent and Decline of the Greek Torah 26

1.1 Jewish-Hellenistic Sources of the Legend: The Greek Torah 31

1.2 Christian Theology: From the Veritas Graeca to the Veritas Hebraica 42

1.3 (De)canonization of Libraries or Between Alexandria, Athens, and Jerusalem 78

2 Deconstructing History and Traditions: The Written Torah for Ptolemy 100

2.1 Changed Verses as Midrashic Parenthetic Reference 106

2.2 Deconstructed Elements and Contextual Stories 134

2.3 Hermeneutics and Canon 144

3 Deconstructing Translations: The Canonical Substitution Aquila/Onkelos 147

3.1 Translation as Production of Texts: The Sacred Tongue 148

3.2 Targumic Rendering as Mediation of Teaching 158

3.3 The Targumim of Aquila and Onkelos: Canonical Substitution 163

4 (De)canonization in the Making: The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira 190

4.1 The Greek Prologue to the Book of Ben Sira 194

4.2 Ben Sira's Quotations in Rabbinical Sources 204

4.3 Wisdom and Rabbinic Literature: A Struggle for Authority 212

4.4 A Decanonized Author 220

Modern Authors 239

Documentation Style, Transliteration and References 261

1 Hebrew Bible 263

3 Jewish Hellenistic Literature 265

4 New Testament 266

5 Greek and Roman Authors 266

6 Rabbinic Literature 267

7 Church Fathers 270

8 Jewish Medieval Texts and Authors 272.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-260) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004149937

OCLC:

65169025

Publisher Number:

9789004149939

9004149937