Why a Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint?
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Antonella Bellantuono
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Laura Bigoni
Abstract
Since 2010, an international team has been working on the first comprehensive lexicon dedicated to Septuagint Greek, which aims to fill an important gap in the fields of ancient philology and religious studies. The entries include all the relevant word groups used in the translation of the Hebrew Bible, Greek glosses that captured central concepts from classical Hebrew terms and sought to establish suitable expression for certain Realien. This lexicon aims to give a wide perspective on selected lemmas, taking the legacy of classical Greek literature as a starting point and subsequently analyzing the diffusion and usage of the word up through early Christian Literature. This paper will address some of the questions that are being faced by the team and will explore the innovative approach of this lexicographical project through the presentation of samples.
Acknowledgements
This article was written within the “Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint” project. We would like to express our sincere thanks to the organizers of the congress for their kind invitation and our gratitude to Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bons (University of Strasbourg), who gave us some valuable advice. We would also like to thank Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford) for her insightful reading. Paragraphs 1–5 were written by Laura Bigoni, paragraphs 6–9 by Antonella Bellantuono. Citations of Greek and Latin authors follow the OCD abbreviations.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Introduction
- Part I Ancient Greek and Latin Lexicography
- Atticist Lexica and the Interpretation of Comic Language
- Second-Century CE Lexicography: Genre or a Literary Current of Language, Politics, and Social Dynamics?
- Considerations on Some Notable Words in a Latin Account of Payments from Tebtynis
- Lucus a non lucendo: Enantiosemy in Ancient Latin Lexicography
- Part II Greco-Latin Lexicography in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Modern World
- Latin Grammarians as Lexicographers: The Treatment of Nouns with Uncertain Gender
- Claretus And the City: The Glossarius, Its Latin Neologisms and Its Reception in Municipal Administrative Texts
- A Distorted Lemma: Στεφάκης Ἀθηναῖος ἱερομόναχος and a False Biography of Nicholas of Methone
- Part III Lexicography and Classics: Uses, Perspectives, and Ongoing Projects
- Latin Lexicography and Textual Criticism: A Lexical Note on Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.380
- An Ongoing Supplement to Traditional Dictionaries: WiP – Words in Progress and the Contribution of Greek Documentary Papyrology
- Why a Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint?
- Pluralist Perspectives in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
- List of Contributors
