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close analysis by the ranking scholar on the Septuagint of Isaiah: Arie Van Der Kooij, The Oracle of Tyre. The Septuagint of Isaiah Xxiii As Version and Vision (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum)

Posted in denkschrift, tagged , , , , on September 20, 2007| Leave a Comment »

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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a snapshot of the 1980s IOSCS and LXX lexicography: Takamitsu Muraoka, Melbourne Symposium on Septuagint Lexicography (Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series)

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , , , on September 9, 2007| 2 Comments »

The lexicographer T. Muraoka gathers in this slim volume a selection of papers that demonstrate the concern to upgrade the tools and methodologies available to Septuagintalists that was expressed among the members of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies in the late 1980s. (more…)

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