, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 320 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 7 tables b/w., Languages: English, Greek, Hebrew. ISBN 9782503610177.
Summary The phenomenon of the Septuagint is a matter of interest for several areas of research - not only for Old Testament scholars, but also for researchers of Hellenistic Judaism, patristic exegesis, translation theory and practice, and others. What they all have in common is the text of the Septuagint. Unfortunately, the research is often so compartmentalized that scholars do not know about each other's work and cannot profit from it. The aim of the conference "The Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text" was to bring together scholars studying the text of the Septuagint in its various aspects: its reconstruction, peculiarities of language, and lexical semantics in their relationship with the Semitic background and within the Greek-speaking world, whether Jewish or Christian. These different approaches to the same matter are bound to lead to mutual enrichment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface (Helena Panczová) I. Lexis of the Septuagint 1. The "Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint": Presentation of the Project and a Sample Entry from Volume 2: ????????? (Eberhard Bons) 2. Behind the Scenes of HTLS: The Case Study of ??????? (Laura Bigoni) 3. The Question of Neologisms: Their Frequency and Character (Andrew T. Keenan) 4. Are the Waters Full of Snakes (??????) in LXX Genesis 1? (Tyler Horton) II. Pentateuch 5. The Law Concerning Witnesses in Deut 19:15-21: Comparing the Septuagint, Masoretic Text, Targum Onqelos and Vulgate (Viktor Ber, Adam Mackerle & Július Pavel?ík) 6. The Description of the Table of Showbread in the Letter of Aristeas (Ep. Arist. 57?65) and Exod 25:23?25 (Ekaterina Druzhinina) 7. Interrogatives in the Greek Pentateuch: The "Why" (?? ???) of Translation Technique (Robert S. Walker) III. The Historical Books and the Kaige Revision 8. New - and Old, but Forgotten - Insights in Samuel, Kings, and Other Texts, and Their Relevance for Septuagint Studies (Siegfried Kreuzer) 9. Subtlety in Kaige Revision of Kingdoms (Timothy A. Lee) IV. Prophets, Proverbs, and Judith 10. The Sense of the Term ????????? in Isaiah 9:4(5): An Analysis of Greek Rendering of the Hebrew Allegory; the Implications for Contextual Reading of Paul's Message (Franti?ek Ábel) 11. Focus on Folly through Two Major Additions in the LXX Proverbs 9:12, 18 (Jozef Jan?ovi?) 12. To Meet with or to Come against? On the Meaning(s) of the Preposition ???? in Jdt 1:6a (Martina Korytiaková) V. Psalms 13. Syntactic Questions Regarding Psalm 44[45]: Does Greek Colometry Make more Sense than Hebrew? (Konrad Kremser) 14. Hoc Graecus codex indicat - Augustine Consulting the Septuagint for his Enarrationes in Psalmos (Clemens Weidmann) 15. The Mystery of the Missing Third Day of the Week: Greek Superscriptions of Psalms in Patristic Exegesis (Helena Panczová) Indices Contributors