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

Fernández Marcos, Natalio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004115749 ISBN 13: 9789004115743

Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2000

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This translation of the second - revised and expanded - Spanish edition deals fully with the origins of the Septuagint. It discusses its linguistic and cultural frame, its relation to the Hebrew text and to the Qumran documents, the transmission of the Septuagint and its reception by Jews and Christians. It includes the early revisions, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Christian recensions and particularly Origen's Hexapla, Biblical commentaries and catenae, as well as other issues such as the relation of the Septuagint to Hellenism, to the New Testament and to Early Christian Literature.
It is a comprehensive introduction to the Septuagint, the first translation and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and to other Greek versions of the Bible.

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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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• Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004115749
• ISBN 13: 9789004115743
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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