XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Munich, 2013

XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies: Munich, 2013
ISBN-10
0884141616
ISBN-13
9780884141617
Category
Religion
Pages
780
Language
English
Published
2016-08-26
Publisher
SBL Press
Authors
Wolfgang Kraus, Martin Meiser, Michaël N. van der Meer

Description

Essays from experts in the field of Septuagint studies The study of Septuagint offers essential insights in ancient Judaism and its efforts to formulate Jewish identity within a non-Jewish surrounding culture. This book includes the papers given at the XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS), held in Munich, Germany, in 2013. The first part of this book deals with questions of textual criticism. The second part is dedicated to philology. The third part underlines the increasing importance of Torah in Jewish self-definition. Features: Essays dealing with questions of textual criticism, mostly concerning the historical books and wisdom literature and ancient editions and translations Philological essays covering the historical background, studies on translation technique and lexical studies underline the necessity of both exploring general perspectives and working in detail

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