Some Problems with Talking about ‘Septuagint Greek’
While all agree that the language of the Septuagint does not represent a Jewish dialect, scholarship has nevertheless struggled to find ways of discussing the language of the Septuagint without implying a similar idea. Just as the notions of “biblical Greek” and “Jewish Greek” have rightly come unde...
| Другие заглавия: | Special Issue: The Septuagint within the History of Greek, edited by James K. Aitken† and Marieke Dhont |
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Brill
2023
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Год: 2023, Том: 54, Выпуск: 4/5, Страницы: 451-493 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Sociolinguistics
B postclassical Greek B Койне B Style B Septuagint Greek B Septuagint |
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| Итог: | While all agree that the language of the Septuagint does not represent a Jewish dialect, scholarship has nevertheless struggled to find ways of discussing the language of the Septuagint without implying a similar idea. Just as the notions of “biblical Greek” and “Jewish Greek” have rightly come under scrutiny, so also must scholars carefully reconsider “Septuagint Greek” and similar sobriquets. While admittedly helpful shorthand, such terminology may unintentionally license—or surreptitiously import—prescriptivist approaches to language that are now widely abandoned in linguistic scholarship. This article presents the ancient historical background to such approaches and surveys problematic terminology common within contemporary scholarship to illustrate its links (or lack thereof) with developments in general linguistics. More up-to-date frameworks, particularly from sociolinguistics, provide better concepts and terminology for discussing the language of the Septuagint. Attention is also given to evaluating the absence of external evidence and matters of style. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10057 |