Abraham Wasserstein, David J. Wasserstein

The Legend of the Septuagint

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah. Many versions of a legend about the translation have existed since antiquity. This legend has been adapted and changed for many reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events, and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 727g
• ISBN-13: 9780521854955
• ISBN-10: 0521854954
• Artikelnr.: 22261965

Autorenporträt

Abraham Wasserstein (born Frankfurt am Main, 1921, died Jerusalem, 1995) taught at the universities of Glasgow and Leicester before taking up a chair in Greek at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in 1969, where he stayed until his death in 1995. He had special interests in Greek literature and science, and wrote widely in these fields. His publications include an edition of the medieval Hebrew translation of Galen's commentary on Hippocrates' Airs, Waters and Places (lost in the original Greek). The present book was begun by him and left incomplete at his death.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
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 Rabbinite Jews in the Middle Ages
10. The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the Modern World
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography and Sources
Index.