The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible - Couverture souple

Marcos, Natalio Fernandez

 
9781589834637: The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible

Synopsis

This text deals with the origins of the Septuagint, the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. It discusses its linguistic and cultural frame and its relation to the hebrew text and to the Qumran documents. It includes the early revisions and the Christian recensions as well as other issues such as the relation of the Septuagint to Hellenism, to the New Testament and to early Christian literature.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Septuagint, the first translation or as Fernández Marcos points out, a collection of translations of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek figures prominently in both the history of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. In this second, revised edition of the successful Spanish translation, Natalio Fernández Marcos introduces readers to the origin of the Septuagint in its earliest versions (Aquila, Theodotian, and Symmachus) and traces the fundamental issues associated with Septuagint studies. Published with financial support from the Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliothecas del Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Spain. The Septuagint in Context is also available in hardback (ISBN 90 04 11574 9)

Biographie de l'auteur

Natalio Fernández Marcos, Ph.D. (1970) in Classical Philology, University of Madrid (Complutense), is Research Professor at the Institute of Philology, where he was Director (1988-1992). He has published extensively on the Septuagint and Hellenistic Judaism including Scribes and Translators. Septuagint and Old Latin in the Books of Kings (Brill, 1994) and El texto antioqueno de la Biblia griega (CSIC 1989-1996).

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9789004115743: The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9004115749 ISBN 13 :  9789004115743
Editeur : Brill, 2000
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