[B-Greek] LXX
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Tue Jun 6 16:18:23 EDT 2006
Curiously, Jack Sasson just today has mentioned a new book on the LXX
that folks involved in this thread may enjoy:
The Legend of the Septuagint
From Classical Antiquity to Today
Abraham Wasserstein
David J. Wasserstein
Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521854954
Contents
1, The Letter of Aristeas; 2. The Hellenistic Jewish tradition; 3. The
Rabbis and the Greek Bible; 4. The Ptolemaic changes; 5. The church
fathers and the translation of the Septuagint; 6. Among the Christians
in the Orient; 7. The Muslims and the Septuagint; 8. Yosippon and the
story of the seventy; 9. Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the
Middle Ages; 10. The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the modern world.
Reviews
‘This manuscript is a striking and valuable survey of an immense
territory … It would be impossible to overpraise the book's positive
qualities. The authors' mastery of original languages and modern
scholarly literature, their sense of what is plausible and what isn't,
and the economy of their exposition all compel respect.’ Anthony
Grafton, Princeton University
Jim
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