The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text

As a response to the tradition of scholarship that focused on questions of LXX origins, translation techniques and textual criticism, this article looks at how the LXX translations in antiquity were already in certain respects marked as Greek texts at their production, constructed as Greek literary...

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Main Author: Wright, Benjamin G. 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2019, Volume: 50, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 497-523
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Aristobulus, Iudaeus ca. 2 BC. Jh. / Demetrius, Iudaeus ca. 3. Jh. v. Chr. / Ezechiel, Tragicus ca. 3 BC./2. Jh. / Aristeas, Epistolographus, Ad Philocratem / Old Testament / Translation
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Aristobulos
B Philo of Alexandria
B Translation
B Ezekiel the Tragedian
B Demetrius the Chronographer
B Letter of Aristeas
B Septuagint
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Summary:As a response to the tradition of scholarship that focused on questions of LXX origins, translation techniques and textual criticism, this article looks at how the LXX translations in antiquity were already in certain respects marked as Greek texts at their production, constructed as Greek literary texts in their origins, and subsequently employed in the same ways as compositional Greek texts by those who engaged them. It shows how the author of Aristeas constructs the LXX as a Greek text, how it functioned as such for Aristobulos and Philo. Already the translators demonstrate in their use of poetic language that they could produce literary Greek. Subsequently, Jewish Hellenistic authors employed the LXX alongside other Greek texts, and treated it with the methods of Hellenistic scholarship.
ISSN:1570-0631
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12505130