LXX-Isaiah as translation and interpretation : the strategies of the translator of the Septuagint of Isaiah / by Ronald L. Troxel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Troxel, Ronald L., 1951-

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 124.

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Isaiah--Greek--Versions--Septuagint.

Bible.

Bible. Isaiah--Translating.

Bible. Isaiah.

Physical Description:

xvi, 309 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

70-Isaiah as translation and interpretation

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Summary:

This book offers a fresh understanding of how Isaiah was translated into Greek, by considering the impact of the translator's Alexandrian milieu on his work. Whereas most studies over the past fifty years have regarded the book's free translation style as betraying the translator's conviction that Isaiah's oracles were being fulfilled in his day, this study argues that he was primarily interested in offering his Greek-speaking co-religionists a cohesive representation of Isaiah's ideas. Comparison of the translator's interpretative tacks with those employed by the grammatikoi in their study of Homer offers a convincing picture of his work as an Alexandrian Jew and clarifies how this translation should be assessed in reconstructing early textual forms of Hebrew Isaiah.

Contents:

1 The Translator of Isaiah 1

"Contemporizing" Interpretation 4

The translator as an Alexandrian 20

The Museum and its [characters not reproducible] 25

2 Alexandria and the LXX 37

Alexandrian Judaism 38

The Letter of Aristeas and the LXX 41

The LXX and translation 54

Translation in the Hellenistic world 55

Translation and the LXX-Pentateuch 59

3 Reconstructing the Vorlage of LXX-Isaiah 73

4 Linguistic Interpretation in LXX-Isaiah 87

Grammatical interpretation 89

Semantic interpretation 102

5 Contextual Interpretation in LXX-Isaiah 133

Reformulations and non-translations 134

"Contemporizing" Interpretation 152

6 A Critique of Contemporization 173

Eschatology in LXX-Isaiah 173

Eschatology defined 174

The Meaning(s) of [characters not reproducible] 177

[characters not reproducible] in LXX-Isaiah 179

Translation of Toponyms in LXX-Isaiah 188

7 Israel's Oppressors in LXX-Isaiah 201

Fiscal oppression 201

Antiochus IV 209

The NOMO[Sigma] 234

8 Translation and Interpretation in LXX-Isaiah 247

Chapter 28 as a Literary Unit 250

Chapter 28 and Ubersetzungsweise 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-300) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004153942

9789004153943

OCLC:

177064129