The Oracle of Tyre

The volume deals with the Septuagint version of Isaiah 23, the Oracle of Tyre. The text of this chapter serves as an illustration of a comprehensive method of analysis which is described in the first part of the book.
After a study of the Masoretic text the Septuagint version is dealt with from several points of view: in comparison with the Masoretic text, as text in its own right, as to its genre ('vision'), and concerning its Hebrew Vorlage. Due attention is paid to the Isaiah texts from Qumran.
The last part of the book contains a chapter on the reception of LXX Isaiah 23 in patristic commentaries and also an appendix of text critical notes on Isaiah 23 according to the principles of the Biblica Hebraica Quinta.

Arie van der Kooij Ph.D. (1978), Utrecht, is Professor of Old Testament Studies at Leiden University. He has published on the ancient versions of the Old Testament including 'Zum Verhältnis von Textkritik und Literarkritik: Überlegungen anhand einiger Beispiele', in Congress Volume Cambridge (Brill, 1997)

'The research by Van der Kooij has produced ground-breaking and daring results...This book should be read by all who are interested in the way Septuagint translators approached their underlying parent texts. It is a laudable exposition in sound methodology and interpretation.'
Johann Cook, Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages, 1998.
'An essential methodological study for all scholars and students.'
Marvin A. Sweeney, Religious Studies Review, 1999.
'Scholars and students engaged in text-critical and exegetical research in the Hebrew Bible and ancient versions will profit from this work.'
Tim McLay, Journal of Biblical Literature, 2000.