Canter Bridge

This volume is a close study of LXX Isaiah chapter 23 by the most prolific writer on the Greek Isaiah. Chapter One (‘Introduction: the Method for the Book’, 1-19) surveys the various approaches to LXX Isaiah that have occupied the field since Z. Frankel’s seminal study. The author takes a ‘contextual approach’. The LXX is at first to be studied in relation to its presumed Vorlage (similar to MT Isaiah), but more importantly is taken seriously as a coherent text in its own right. Pace Seeligmann, the translator’s genius is not to be discovered at the word or verse level, in ‘isolated free renderings’, but rather at the level of pericope or passage. The translator is a scholar, with liberties to engage in creative and actualising interpretation. (more…)

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