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Traductor Scriptor
The Old Greek Translation of Exodus 1-14 as Scribal Activity
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
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In Traductor Scriptor, John Screnock situates the Old Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible within the broader scribal culture of the ancient world. Building on current methods in Septuagint studies and textual criticism, Screnock engages the evidence from Qumran, the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Old Greek to argue that the phenomena of translation and transmission are fundamentally similar. Traductor Scriptor presents a unique approach to the use of the Old Greek for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, based on new theoretical considerations and an in-depth analysis of text-critical data in the Old Greek translation and Hebrew manuscripts of Exodus 1–14.
Author / Editor information
John Screnock, Ph.D. (Toronto, 2015), is Kennicott Fellow in Hebrew at the University of Oxford.
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eBook published on:
January 16, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9789004336568
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Main content:
216
eBook ISBN:
9789004336568
Keywords for this book
Bible; Scripture; Judaism; Septuagint; translation; Exodus; transmission; scribes; Samaritan; Pentateuch; Qumran; scrolls; manuscripts; Greek; translators
Audience(s) for this book
Text-critics and Septuagintalists; scholars interested in the text of Exodus 1–14, the use of the Septuagint in textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, and the development of texts during the Second Temple period.
