XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies : Aberdeen, 2019 / edited by Gideon R. Kotzé, Michaël N. van der Meer, and Martin Rösel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Congress (17th : 2019 : Aberdeen, Scotland)

Contributor:

Kotzé, Gideon R., editor.

Meer, Michaël N. van der, editor.

Rösel, Martin, editor.

Series:

Septuagint and cognate studies series ; no. 76.

Septuagint and cognate studies ; number 76

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

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

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament.

Bible--Greek--Versions--Septuagint--Congresses.

Bible--Greek--Septuagint--Criticism, Textual--Congresses.

Bible--Greek--Versions--Septuagint--Language, style--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 837 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : SBL Press, [2022]

Language Note:

English and German.

Summary:

"This volume from the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) includes the papers given at the XVII Congress of the IOSCS, which was held in Aberdeen in 2019. Essays in the collection fall into five areas of focus: textual history, historical context, syntax and semantics, exegesis and theology, and commentary. Scholars and students of the translation, theology, and reception of the Old Greek translation of Scripture will find in this volume critical information for future work in Septuagint studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Armenian redaction of Esther : a late antique Christian reading of a Hellenistic Jewish text / S. Peter Cowe

Barthélemy's kaige subgroup : does it exist? / Dries De Crom

The complete reconstruction and edition of the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament and its relevance for the textual history of the Septuagint / Frank Feder

The original language of the book of Judith : a comparison with the Vulgate / Giulia Leonardi

Paratextual features of Deuteronomion and their interpretive significance / Douglas C. Mohrmann

Exegetical substitutions in Theodotion Daniel / Daniel Olariou

Legal principles and Torah stipulations : Jewish legal reasoning in Hellenistic Egypt / Robert Kugler

The rhetorical function of Judith / Nathan LaMontagne

Whose God protects whom? : LXX Exodus 15:3 against the background of Isis worship in Ptolemaic Egypt / Luke Neubert

King-physician : the medical metaphor in the Greek translations of Proverbs 24 / Vladimir Olivero

The Septuagint and the history of marriage gifts in early Jewish law / Jelle Verburg

Animalia in libro lob : the Greek rendering of Hebrew animal names in LXX Job / Bryan Beeckman

Observations on the vocabulary of epiphanic revelation in the LXX and in Jewish-Hellenistic literature / Eberhard Bons

The Greek of Wisdom : natural usage and Septuagintal influence / Ryan Comins

Interpreting [agō] and its compounds in the Septuagint : a semantic, syntactic, and lexical study / Paul L. Danove

Die Wortgruppe Glaube/Treue in der Septuaginta und bei Philon von Alexandria / Martin Meiser

Fear and loathing in Alexandria? : abominable words in the Septuagint Pentateuch and disgust theory / Alison Salvesen

Considerations on the use of [sebomai] in the Septuagint and in Jewish-Hellenistic literature / Daniela Scialabba

[Katapetasma] in Exodus and Hebrews : a reevaluation of the inner and the outer veil / Elena Belenkaja

About the translation of the verb [shuv] in the Septuagint of the book of Ruth / Beatrice Bonanno

Antiochus's confession in 2 Maccabees 9:12 : text, translation, and a possible Homeric allusion / Crispin Fletcher-Louis

The intention of the translator and theology in the Septuagint / W. Edward Glenny

Revisiting the debated readings in LXX Lamentations 3:47 / Gideon R. Kotzé

The Platonic influence in the passages on soul in the Wisdom of Solomon / Ekaterina Matusova

The names of the pillars of the First Temple and their meaning in the MT and Greek textual tradition (1 Kgs 7.21 ∥ 3 Kgdms 7.7) / Daniel Prokop

Status and function of the Levites in Ezekiel 44:9-15 according to the different textual traditions of the book of Ezekiel / Martin Tscheu

Challenges in translating the Psalms of Solomon for the Society of Biblical Literature commentary on the Septuagint / Kenneth Atkinson

Dictionary versus encyclopedia : framing the petition for a lawgiver at LXX Psalm 9.21 / Cameron Boyd-Taylor

How the translator of Old Greek Job understood Job's suffering / Claude Cox

Durative forms in narrative in Paraleipomenon : semantically constrained or target language sensitivity in discourse? / Roger Good

lakob at the labok : exegetical observations concerning a pericope of Septuagint Genesis 32 / Robert J.V. Hiebert

Singing with Moses in Greek : an examination of LXX Deuteronomy 32 from the perspective of its production / Jean Maurais

The task of the translator : the study of the Old Greek translation of the book of Joshua in light of contemporary translations / Michaël N. van der Meer

A commentary to the Septuagint of 2 Samuel 1:1-10 / Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto.

Interpreting ἄγω and its compounds in the Septuagint : a semantic, syntactic, and lexical study / Paul L. Danove

Considerations on the use of σέβομαι in the Septuagint and in Jewish-Hellenistic literature / Daniela Scialabba

Καταπέτασμα in Exodus and Hebrews : a reevaluation of the inner and the outer veil / Elena Belenkaja

About the translation of the verb שוב in the Septuagint of the book of Ruth / Beatrice Bonanno

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781628375152

1628375159

9781628375169

1628375167

OCLC:

1337926244