
Joshua
Joshua
Graeme Auld(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 29. November 2004
Book
Leather / fine binding
268 pages
978-90-04-13842-1 (ISBN)
Description
Codex Vaticanus (4th cent. CE) includes the oldest, and probably the most important, complete copy of the Greek translation of the biblical book of Joshua (or Jesus, in Greek). The translation had been made some five centuries earlier (2nd cent. BCE) from a Hebrew version of Joshua which differed at many points from the Hebrew text now familiar to us. It was mostly rather literal; and, where it appears surprisingly free, it is often inviting attention to relevant passages in the books of Moses. What the first scribe of the Codex wrote is transcribed uncorrected. The deliberately literal rendering into English on facing pages provides ready access to alternative forms of the many proper names in Joshua. The commentary discusses both translation and exegetical technique.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
621 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-13842-1 (9789004138421)
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Person
A. Graeme Auld, Ph.D. (1976), University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Hebrew Bible in the University of Edinburgh. Recent publications include Joshua Retold (T&T Clark, 1998) and Samuel at the Threshold (Ashgate, 2004).