Abraham Wasserstein, David J. Wasserstein, Wasserstein Abraham

The Legend of the Septuagint

From Classical Antiquity to Today

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the uses and abuses of the Septuagint creation in various cultures around the Mediterranean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9780521104616
• ISBN-10: 0521104610
• Artikelnr.: 25686535

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.