Construction, Coherence and Connotations : : Studies on the Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature / / ed. by Nicholas P. L. Allen, Pierre J. Jordaan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Nicholas P. L.,; Jordaan, Pierre J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Nicholas Peter Legh,; Balla, Ibolya,; Bruyn, Joseph Jacobus de,; Coetzer, Eugene,; Cook, Johann,; Efthimiadis-Keith, Helen,; Evans, Annette H. M.,; Hobyane, Risimati S.,; Jordaan, Pierre Johan,; Kotzé, Gideon R.,; Miller-Naudé, Cynthia L.,; Modugno, Steve,; Naudé, Jacobus A.,; Reiterer, Friedrich Vinzenz,; Swart, Gerhardus J.,; Xeravits, Géza G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 318 p.)

These fourteen selected essays were originally read at the LXXSA international conference: Construction, Coherence and Connotation in Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature (28-30 August 2015), hosted by the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. Here, the intention was to apply new critical theory and approaches to the fields of Old Testament Scripture as well as associated Apocryphal and Cognate literature, with a specific focus on the interrelated recurring theme of the Wisdom of the deity and its decryption and reception at various times in history. In this regard, it was felt that this theme and associated source texts had been largely overlooked in recent scholarship. Here the aim was to attract recent research by both leading national as well as international scholars which not only shed new light on Old Testament Apocrypha and so-called Pseudepigraphical literature but which also critically reviewed certain biblical wisdom texts which are foundational for both the Christian as well as Jewish communities. As a consequence, many of the essays deal with the apocryphal Wisdom of Sirach. However, important contributions may also be found apropos Micah, Daniel, Baruch, 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Susanna, Judith, and the works of Josephus Flavius.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Relationship Between the Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira and the Septuagint Version of Proverbs -- Three Poetic Pillars in the Book of Ben Sira: From the Divine to Human Wisdom -- Past, Present and Future in the Book of Ben Sira -- A Text-Critical Examination of Different Readings in the Hebrew and Greek Texts of Ben Sira 35:18 (32:19) -- Interpretation and Ideology in the Metatexts of Ben Sira: The Headings of the Geneva Bible (1560) and the King James Version (1611) -- Angelic Mediation in the Book of Tobit: A Shift in the Deuteronomic Paradigm? -- Structural and Psychological Coherence in the Book of Tobit -- Translation Shifts in LXX-Micah as Clues to its Theology and Ideology -- Reading Judith as a Guide to Jewish Worship in Second Temple Judaism: A Greimassian Perspective -- A Study of Connection and Disjunction in the Book of Baruch -- Susanna – Framing the Minds and Views of People in Daniel -- A Possible Greek Bible Source for Late Antique Synagogue Art -- Coincidence or Coherence? Rhetorical Considerations for Unnatural Elements in 2 Maccabees 5:1–20 -- Josephus and the Pharisees -- Index