This fascinating book by William Loader shows how the Septuagint
created new slants and emphasis on sexuality and explores how they
leave their mark in the writings of Philo and the New Testament.
Loaderbs useful motif in this study is that bsome things are
lost in translation, others gained.b The Greek translation of the
Hebrew scriptures could not help but result in verbal connections,
lost emphases, and novel word plays that ultimately opened the door
to new interpretations. One particularly important instance of this
effect of translation is the Septuagintbs treatment of
sexuality.
In the course of his book Loader explores sexuality as it is
presented in the Decalogue, the stories of Creation and the Garden
of Eden, and the brief reference to divorce in Deuteronomy 24. He
looks at each of these three samples in three stages: its
Septuagint translation, its use in Philo, and then its possible
impact in the New Testament.
As an example, Philo makes much of the fact that in his
scriptures, as in most early Septuagint texts, adultery heads the
list of sins on the second table of the Law, and such changes in
turn impacted the New Testament writings. Loader also shows how the
Septuagint version of the Creation stories opens the possibility of
framing male-female relations in several ways and how the Eden
narratives allow for conjuring women as faulty creations or
understanding Eve as seduced by the serpent. Such possibilities
find fruitful soil in Philo, but also take root in such writers as
Paul.
"The Septuagint, Sexuality, and the New Testament" is a
groundbreaking book that makes a major contribution to biblical
studies, with reverberations to the whole field of
Christianscholarship.
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