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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Septuagint"”.
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Πνεῦμα in the Septuagint
The aim of this study is to accomplish a lexicographical description of πνεῦμα in the translated texts of the LXX. I take a multicausal approach which considers both the source texts and discourse context of the Greek translation together as formative (to varying degrees) for word choice, and …
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Septuagint Lexicography and Language Change in Greek Judges
… identifies and addresses key issues in Septuagint lexicography using case studies from the Greek version of Judges. The first chapter outlines the state of the question on the textual history of Judges in Hebrew and Greek, and also presents my lexicographical method and related matters. …
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Double Renderings in the Septuagint of Proverbs 1–9
This thesis investigates the doubly rendered lines in Greek Proverbs 1–9 in light of the translation technique in the rest of the book. Chapter 1 provides background to the study of Greek Proverbs by introducing the current topic and relevant scholarly treatments. This chapter also provides a …
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Studies in Septuagint Leviticus: Linguistics, Tradition, and Lexical Choice
This thesis investigates three features of Septuagint Leviticus’ Greek text as a means to better understand the translator, his world, and his text. After an introductory chapter, chapter 2 shows that the valency of Hebrew verbs (in this instance qṭr) is an important tool for the analysis of …
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The Middle Voice in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament
… have obvious bearing on the study of the Septuagint and Greek New Testament.This dissertation addresses these questions. It argues that the middle voice in the Septuagint and Greek New Testament expresses a broad variety of semantically related ideas, all of which revolve around the notion …
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Translators as Scribes--A Comparison of Scribal Practice and Translation Practice: Exodus 1-14 in the Hebrew Manuscript Tradition and the Old Greek
… and apply a methodology that situates the Septuagint within the broader scribal culture of the ancient world. Drawing on theory from the field of Translation Studies and a comparative analysis of textual and translation data in Exodus 1-14, I argue that the phenomena of translation and …
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The Textual Relation of the Peshitta of Ezekiel 1-12 to MT and to the Ancient Versions (Tg-J and LXX)
… other versions (particularly <strong>G </strong>[Septuagint] and <strong>C</strong><sup>J </sup>[Targum Jonathan]). Thus some scholars have automatically discarded or ignored the Peshitta version as a useful tool (as a textual witness) for the study of the Hebrew text. The knowledge of textual …
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Jerome's sources in his translation of the Hebrew Bible
… verses with the Hebrew-Aramaic version, the Septuagint one, the Latin translations of the Septuagint, the Greek translations of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, and, where relevant, with the Targumim and with specific passages from rabbinic literature. This comparative analysis sheds light …
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Neologisms in LXX Jeremiah: Word Formation within the History of Greek
Neologisms remain an important topic within Septuagint scholarship. Despite their significance, very few studies devoted to the topic of “new words” have materialized. This dissertation examines the identification and interpretation of putative neologisms, Greek words allegedly coined by the …
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Language Contact and Inner-Syriac Developments: Lexical Study of the Peshitta Genesis
… Genesis, the thesis responds to proposals of Septuagint or Targumic influence upon the Peshitta, and demonstrates that language contact and corpus contact represent two different processes that do not always follow the same route, and should therefore be distinguished. Ultimately, it asks …
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Kaige and the Early Transmission History of the Bible: A Reassessment
This thesis investigates kaige revision of the Septuagint through multiple perspectives to reassess the early transmission history of the Bible. By re-evaluating the Greek Minor Prophets Scroll and kaige texts in Samuel–Kings, this study challenges existing assumptions and provides new insights …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… This nuanced perspective creates an avenue for Septuagint research to move beyond otherizing the language use of Jewish populations in antiquity. Instead, the translators of the Greek Pentateuch may be situated within the broader linguistic and cultural world of Ptolemaic Egypt.
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Three Nuances of the Perfect Indicative in the Greek New Testament
… examples from Classical Greek literature and the Septuagint. Chapter 5 addresses the bewildering issues of the so-called aorist perfect through the lens of the semantic change of the perfect during the Koine period from anterior to simple past. The Greek perfect merged with the aorist, ending up …
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A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Numbers 19-36
… the relevant texts from the Hebrew and the Greek Septuagint as well as the hexaplaric materials with comments following. Chapter 4 contains those readings that do not appear to be hexaplaric, but which are found in sources that contain other valid hexaplaric materials. Many of these are included …
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Jesus' resurrection as the climactic semeion in the Fourth Gospel
… semeion in the background literature such the Septuagint, Josephus, Philo as well as New Testament books is surveyed. The investigation results in the conclusion that all seventeen occurrences of the term semeion in the Fourth Gospel means a 'miracle,' which functions as authenticating …
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A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Ecclesiastes
… many of the conventions of the Göttingen Septuagint editions. Chapter 2 describes the textual sources used for the project: notes in the margins of Greek/LXX Bible manuscripts, marginal readings in Syriac from the Syro-Hexapla, the works of early church fathers, and the Catena traditions. …
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The Scribes and Correctors of Codex Vaticanus: A Study on the Codicology, Paleography, and Text of B(03)
… as one of the most important witnesses for Septuagint scholars and New Testament textual critics, there has yet to be any thorough examination of the scribes and their copying patterns. In other manuscripts, such as Codex Sinaiticus, it has been shown that knowledge of the scribal habits is …
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Written Convergence in the Greek Pentateuch: Studies at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
… successful this argument demonstrates that the Septuagint was intended to be read as a monolingual corpus even when its meaning had been borrowed from the source. This argument provides an explanation for a high degree of literalism in the product: written convergence was an epiphenomenon of …
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