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Toward a Theology of the Septuagint: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint, 2018

edited by Johann Cook
Martin Rösel

SBL Press, 2020
eISBN: 978-0-88414-430-4 | Cloth: 978-0-88414-429-8 | Paper: 978-1-62837-270-0
Library of Congress Classification BS744.I58 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 221.48

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Innovative Septuagint research from an international group of scholars

Toward a Theology of the Septuagint: Stellenbosch Congress on the Septuagint, 2018 focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and possible to formulate a theology of the Septuagint. Nineteen English and German essays examine Old Testament, New Testament, and extrabiblical texts from a variety of methodological perspectives to demonstrate that such a theology is indeed necessary and possible.

Features

Nuanced discussion of whether and how a theology of the Septuagint can be written

Extensive methodological discussions

Close textual studies of biblical, Greek philosophical, and Jewish sources

Abstracts of each essay

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Johann Cook is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stellenbosch. He served as the first president of the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa, was chair for the South African Society for Near Eastern Studies, and was president of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (2013–2016). He is the author of numerous books on the Septuagint and related literature.

Martin Rösel is Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at the University of Rostock. He served as author and coeditor for Septuaginta Deutsch (the German translation of the Septuagint, supplemented by commentary volumes). Rösel has authored and published numerous articles and books on the Septuagint and other ancient and modern Bible translations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cover

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Part 1. Introduction and Questions of Methodology

Projektvorstellung

The Interaction between Theological and Text-Critical Approaches

Theology and Septuagint Corpora

Product Received

Part 2. Septuagint and Plato

Platons Politeia und die Theologie der LXX

Part 3. Theological Perspectives of the Greek Bible 1

Interpretive Intent and the Legal Material of the Septuagint Pentateuch

„Aber nicht wie die Ägypter formierte er seine Kunstwerke aus Backstein und Granit…“

“You Saw No Form When YHWH Spoke to You at Horeb”

Holiness and the Levites in MT and LXX Chronicles

Theology and Translation Techniquei n the Old Greek Version of Job 28

The Septuagint of Proverbs as a Jewish Document

“To Shine” or “To Show”?

Part 4. Theological Perspectives of the Greek Bible 2

Sophia as Second Principle in Wisdom of Solomon

The Joseph Narratives in the LXX, Philo, and Josephus

Toward Defining the Fourth Quest in 2 Maccabees Theological Research

Contributing toward Theologies of the LXX

Israel und die Völker in Texten der Septuaginta

Septuagint Influence on the Formation of Early Christian Theology

„Binde die Gebote auf Deine Seele“

Contributors

Ancient Sources Index

Modern Authors Index

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