[B-Greek] Psalms LXX
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 27 00:32:03 EST 2005
On Jan 26, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Mickhail Matta wrote:
>
> Kind Gmen.
> I am most interested in the Greek translation of the Psalms. I would
> like to know if any of you knows about a study even an old one- of
> the Hebrew text that was probably at the basis of the translation of
> the LXX. Many commentaries of the Psalms include attempts to
> reconstruct the text when it differs from the Masoretic one, but they
> are often occasional passages, and usually transliterated into Latin
> characters. I would like to know if there has been an attempt to
> reconstruct the text in its entirety, or at least, if there is a
> commentary that deals with the passages that feature differences with
> the Masoretic text, with the Hebrew written in Hebrew characters
> vocals included- and not transliterated.
If I read your note correctly, you are looking for a retroverted text
of the Greek Psalter. I am not aware that such a text exists.
Moreover, since retroverting a translation into its reputed source is a
painstaking and difficult operation, and in the nature of the case is
fraught with uncertainty, to do so in toto for any biblical book would
be rather presumptuous. That having been said, selected retroversions
are offered by commentators and some of these have a high degree of
plausibility. For the Psalms it is especially older (say, pre-1940)
commentaries have a lot of useful information. A good example is
Briggs in the ICC series. Also still useful is F. W. Mozley, The
Psalter of the Church (1905) and Martin Flashar's “Exegetische Studien
zum Septuagintapsalter.” ZAW 32 (1912) 81-116, 161-89, 241-68. Also to
be noted are the critical apparatuses in Biblia Hebraica editions (eg.
BHS). In none of these are transliterations used. For further
bibliography on the Psalm see my website at
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~pietersm under Sigla & Bibliography.
Al
Thanks
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Albert Pietersma
Professor of Septuagint and Hellenistic Greek
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
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