The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text

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" The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text "
Benjamin G. Wright

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075515
Doc. No	:	LA119144
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12505130‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Benjamin G. Wright
Title & Author	:	The Septuagint as a Hellenistic Greek Text [Article]\ Benjamin G. Wright
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	50/4-5
Page No	:	497–523
Abstract	:	As a response to the tradition of scholarship that focused on questions of LXX origins, translation techniques and textual criticism, this article looks at how the LXX translations in antiquity were already in certain respects marked as Greek texts at their production, constructed as Greek literary texts in their origins, and subsequently employed in the same ways as compositional Greek texts by those who engaged them. It shows how the author of Aristeas constructs the LXX as a Greek text, how it functioned as such for Aristobulos and Philo. Already the translators demonstrate in their use of poetic language that they could produce literary Greek. Subsequently, Jewish Hellenistic authors employed the LXX alongside other Greek texts, and treated it with the methods of Hellenistic scholarship.
Descriptor	:	Aristobulos
Descriptor	:	Demetrius the Chronographer
Descriptor	:	Ezekiel the Tragedian
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	Jewish Studies
Descriptor	:	Letter of Aristeas
Descriptor	:	Philo of Alexandria
Descriptor	:	Septuagint
Descriptor	:	translation
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12505130‬