Finding Meaning in the Text

Translation Technique and Theology in the Septuagint of Amos
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17638-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 126, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

This book offers a thorough analysis of the translation technique and theology of LXX-Amos, which will be valuable for those studying LXX-Amos and for those doing textual criticism in the Hebrew text of Amos. It analyzes the literalness of the translation, the rendering of difficult and unknown words, and the rendering of visually ambiguous phenomena, like homonyms, homographs, and word divisions. The evidence suggests the translator worked from a text very similar to the MT. He reveals his biases as he struggles with the difficult and obscure sections of his source text. He exhibits an anti-Syrian and anti-Samaritan bias as well as interest in Gentiles, eschatology, and messianism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glenny, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

W. Edward Glenny, Th.D (1987) in New Testament, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Ph.D. (2007) in Greek, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, is Professor of New Testament and Greek at Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN.