The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria write by Sylvie Honigman. This book was released on 2004-05-05. The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of translation was simultaneously a process of establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek scholars. The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.
Invitation to the Septuagint
Invitation to the Septuagint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Invitation to the Septuagint write by Karen H. Jobes. This book was released on 2015-11-24. Invitation to the Septuagint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This comprehensive yet user-friendly primer to the Septuagint (LXX) acquaints readers with the Greek versions of the Old Testament. It is accessible to students, assuming no prior knowledge about the Septuagint, yet is also informative for seasoned scholars. The authors, both prominent Septuagint scholars, explore the history of the LXX, the various versions of it available, and its importance for biblical studies. This new edition has been substantially revised, expanded, and updated to reflect major advances in Septuagint studies. Appendixes offer helpful reference resources for further study.
Goy
Goy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goy write by Adi Ophir. This book was released on 2018-06-20. Goy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Goy: Israel's Others and the Birth of the Gentile traces the development of the term and category of the goy from the Bible to rabbinic literature. Adi Ophir and Ishay Rosen-Zvi show that the category of the goy was born much later than scholars assume; in fact not before the first century CE. They explain that the abstract concept of the gentile first appeared in Paul's Letters. However, it was only in rabbinic literature that this category became the center of a stable and long standing structure that involved God, the Halakha, history, and salvation. The authors narrate this development through chronological analyses of the various biblical and post biblical texts (including the Dead Sea scrolls, the New Testament and early patristics, the Mishnah, and rabbinic Midrash) and synchronic analyses of several discursive structures. Looking at some of the goy's instantiations in contemporary Jewish culture in Israel and the United States, the study concludes with an examination of the extraordinary resilience of the Jew/goy division and asks how would Judaism look like without the gentile as its binary contrast.
Septuagint and Reception
Septuagint and Reception - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Septuagint and Reception write by Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa. Conference. This book was released on 2009. Septuagint and Reception available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new association for the study of the Septuagint was formed in South Africa recently. The present collection is a compilation of papers delivered at the first conference of this association, as well as other contributions. The volume addresses issues touching on the Septuagint in the broad sense of the word. This includes the Old Greek text (Daniel, Proverbs, Psalms and Lamentations) as well as the reception of the LXX (NT, Augustine and Jerome, etc.). A few contributions that may be regarded as miscellanea are nevertheless related to matters Septuagintal (Aristeas, Peshitta, Eunochos).
Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint
Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint write by Johann Cook. This book was released on 2012-11-23. Text-Critical and Hermeneutical Studies in the Septuagint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars from Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium, France, Canada, the USA and South Africa, delivered papers at a congress that took place from 31st of August – 2nd of September 2011 in Stellenbosch. Aspects dealt with are history, translation technique, textual criticism, reception of the Septuagint.
