The First Bible of the Church describes of the shape of the Jewish Bible at the time of the New Testament, with a special focus on the significance of the Greek translation, the Septuagint. The Jewish defence of the Septuagint version and its reception into the early Church makes it a representative of the Jewish Bible tradition fully on a par with the Hebrew Bible. This fact is especially important because the Septuagint is extensively used in the New Testament writings, whereby it-and not the Hebrew Bible (the Masoretic text)-is the most obvious candidate for the title of the first Bible of the Church.
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The book is short but dense. There is untranslated German and Latin in the footnotes, as one would expect in a scholarly monograph, but the writing is no less engaging for its density . . . Mueller's brief biblical theology at the end of the book is excellent. It left me wanting to read more. His notion of fulfillment as a motif that links together the OT and NT was convincing and well-articulated . . . Mueller's short yet substantive book offers a compelling plea that deserves the reader's careful consideration. -- Abram K-J, Blogger * Words on the Word *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 9 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-567-27320-8 (9780567273208)
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Mogens Mueller is Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Copenhagen.
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
