On the Trail of the Septuagint Translators

Collected Essays. Revised and Expanded Edition

By (author) A. Aejmelaeus

Book cover: On the Trail of the Septuagint Translators

Extent: 316 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Religious Studies

Series: Contributions to Biblical Exegesis & Theology

Series volume number: 50

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2007)

ISBN: 9789042919396

Price: $55.00

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The essays of this revised and expanded collection were written by Prof. Anneli Aejmelaeus over a period of 25 years. The thread that runs through all these essays and holds the collection together is translation technique, which is characterized as a central aspect of methodology rather than an object of study. Only by tracing the trail of the Septuagint translators is it possible to gain a reliable picture of the different translators and of the Hebrew Vorlage their work was based on. The themes dealt with in the individual essays range from the study of syntactical features of the Greek language used in the Septuagint to the quest for the correct understanding of the underlying Hebrew, from the overall description of the translation character of certain biblical books to the application of translation technical data in textual criticism of the Hebrew text, and from methodological questions to the discussion of theological interpretation by the translators, reflecting the ongoing discussion in the international field of Septuagint studies and representing a significant and distinctive critical position in it.

  • By (author) A. Aejmelaeus