
The First Bible of the Church
A Plea for the Septuagint
Mogens Mueller(Author)
Sheffield Academic Press
Published on 1. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
163 pages
978-0-567-27320-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
269 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-567-27320-8 (9780567273208)
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Sheffield Academic Press
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Person
Mogens Mueller is Professor of New Testament Exegesis in the University of Copenhagen.