
Style and Context of Old Greek Job
Marieke Dhont(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 15. May 2018
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-90-04-35848-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Style and Context of Old Greek Job, Marieke Dhont offers a new understanding of the linguistic and stylistic diversity in the Septuagint corpus. To this end, the author innovatively uses Polysystem Theory, which has been developed in the field of modern literary studies.
After discussing the appropriateness of a systemic approach to understanding Jewish-Greek literature, the author reflects on the Jewishness of Greek-language texts. Dhont then presents a thorough literary analysis of the Old Greek version of the book of Job. On this basis, she explains the dynamics that produced the translation of Old Greek Job and its position within the development of a Jewish-Greek literary tradition.
After discussing the appropriateness of a systemic approach to understanding Jewish-Greek literature, the author reflects on the Jewishness of Greek-language texts. Dhont then presents a thorough literary analysis of the Old Greek version of the book of Job. On this basis, she explains the dynamics that produced the translation of Old Greek Job and its position within the development of a Jewish-Greek literary tradition.
Reviews / Votes
Dhonts meticulous monograph makes an important contribution to scholarship and is a crucial resource for any future scholarship on Job.Katherine Southwood, SOTS Book List, 2019
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
805 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-35848-5 (9789004358485)
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Marieke Dhont, Ph.D. (2016), Universite catholique de Louvain and KU Leuven, is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She has published on a variety of topics in classics, biblical studies, and reception history.