Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 435-448
Keywords:
Bible. Versions
;
Dead Sea scrolls
;
Bible.
;
Bible Criticism, Textual
Abstract:
The Hebrew and Greek biblical scrolls found in the middle of the twentieth century in caves at Qumran and other sites along the Dead Sea have greatly enhanced our knowledge of the LXX. Some Greek scrolls prove to be witnesses to the original Greek translation four centuries earlier than our previous manuscripts. They penetrate further behind other manuscripts to offer readings closer to the OG than previously available. In turn, some Hebrew scrolls provide a text which, though at variance from the traditional MT, displays the type of Hebrew edition from which the OG was translated. They confirm that the OG is generally a faithful translation of whichever Hebrew text lay before the translator, as opposed to a paraphrase of the MT or a ‘theological’ or ‘actualizing’ translation.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665716.013.23
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