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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies , 34
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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