Invitation to the Septuagint /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jobes, Karen H
Other Authors: Silva, Moisés
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2015]
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why study the Septuagint?
  • Part 1. The history of the Septuagint. The origin of the Septuagint and other Greek versions
  • The transmission of the Septuagint
  • The Septuagint in modern times
  • The Septuagint as a translation
  • Part 2. The Septuagint in biblical studies. The language of the Septuagint
  • Establishing the text of the Septuagint
  • Using the Septuagint for the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible
  • The Judean desert discoveries and Septuagint studies
  • The Septuagint and the New Testament
  • Interpreting the Septuagint
  • Part 3. The current state of Septuagint studies. Our predecessors: Septuagint scholars of a previous generation
  • Current studies in language and translation
  • Reconstructing the history of the text
  • Theological development in the Hellenistic Age