
The Text of the Septuagint
Its Corruptions and their Emendation
Peter Walters(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 19. March 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-521-10293-3 (ISBN)
Description
This posthumous edition of Dr Walters' The Text of the Septuagint provides a valuable working tool for specialists in Hellenistic and Classical Greek and the Old and New Testaments. The book is directed first to the practical task of producing a critical edition of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. Byzantine and Renaissance scholars both regarded the Greek Old Testament as belonging to the Church rather than to the heritage of classical literature which formed the proper object of their critical endeavours. It was therefore reproduced for centuries in much the same corrupt form and no complete critical edition was produced. The present work is a detailed study of the grammatical corruptions and semitisms in the LXX and is intended to stand as the prolegomenon to such an edition.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
710 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-10293-3 (9780521102933)
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03/1973
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03/1973
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Content
1. Introductory remarks; 2. Vowels; 3. Consonants; 4. Devices for a correct understanding and pronunciation; 5. Accidence and connected syntactical matter; 6. Word-formation; 7. Idiom and lexicon; 8. Hebraisms; 9. Hellenized semitic words.