Reading the Sealed Book: Old Greek Isaiah and the Problem of Septuagint Hermeneutics

ISBN-13: 9781602589803 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 308 str.

J. Ross Wagner

Opis

A translated text is laced with interpretive assumptions. By focusing on the Septuagint, J. Ross Wagner highlights the creative theology hidden in translation. His model couples patient investigation of the act of translation with careful attention to the translated texts' rhetorical features. Wagner focuses upon Isaiah's opening vision, clarifying its language, elucidating its character, and contextualizing its message. "Reading the Sealed Book "demonstrates how such translations serve as distinctive contributions to theology and reveal the contours of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic diaspora.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

A BOOK WITH SEVEN SEALS: THE PROBLEM OF SEPTUAGINT HERMENEUTICS

OPENING THE SEALED BOOK: INTERPRETING A TRANSLATED TEXT

"GIVE HEED TO GOD'S LAW": TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION IN OG ISAIAH 1:1-20

THE PURIFICATION OF ZION: TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION IN OG ISAIAH 1:21-31

CHARACTERIZING OLD GREEK ISAIAH 1

EPILOGUE: OPEN BOOK, OVERFLOWING FOUNTAIN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES

INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS

INDEX OF SUBJECTS