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The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (Hardcover)
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The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of
early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of
immense importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity.
The renderings of individual books attest to the religious
interests of the substantial Jewish population of Egypt during the
Hellenistic and Roman periods, and to the development of the Greek
language in its Koine phase. The narrative ascribing the
Septuagint's origins to the work of seventy translators in
Alexandria attained legendary status among both Jews and
Christians. The Septuagint was the version of Scripture most
familiar to the writers of the New Testament, and became the
authoritative Old Testament of the Greek and Latin Churches. In the
early centuries of Christianity it was itself translated into
several other languages, and it has had a continuing influence on
the style and content of biblical translations. The Oxford Handbook
of the Septuagint features contributions from leading experts in
the field considering the history and manuscript transmission of
the version, and the study of translation technique and textual
criticism. The collection provides surveys of previous and current
research on individual books of the Septuagint corpus, on
alternative Jewish Greek versions, the Christian 'daughter'
translations, and reception in early Jewish and Christian writers.
The Handbook also includes several conversations with related
fields of interest such as New Testament studies, liturgy, and art
history.
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