Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient by Tessa Rajak

Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible and the Ancient by Tessa Rajak

By Tessa Rajak

The interpretation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek used to be the 1st significant translation in Western tradition. Its value used to be far-reaching yet mostly forgotten. with out a Greek Bible, eu background could were totally diversified - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is an intensive new research of the traditional creators and receivers of the translations and in their influence. The Greek Bible sustained Jews who spoke Greek and made the survival of the 1st Jewish diaspora attainable: certainly, the translators invented the time period 'diaspora'. The translations have been a device for the maintenance of workforce identification and for the expression of resistance. They devised a brand new type of language: a number of the phrases they coined are nonetheless with us. The Greek Bible translations ended up because the Christian Septuagint, taken over besides the full historical past of Hellenistic Judaism whilst the Church parted from the Synagogue. right here, an excellent construction is restored to its first proprietors, and to its historic context between Jews, Greeks and Christians.

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And while not quite on the scale of the supposed Zoroaster version, it was still an enormously ambitious project. It is a fanciful but pleasing idea that inspiration could have come from the West, percolating somehow from Rome. But the question for us to ask is not about influences, but rather about what more immediate realities gave rise to the Septuagint. The search for solutions might take different routes, and by the end of this book we will have explored quite a number of them. It would be perverse not to begin with the very rich ancient account.

In both cases, terrors lie beneath the superficial harmony. 24 It is noteworthy that rabbinic tradition on the Alexandrian enterprise shares with Christian literature some of the miraculous elements, though not the supernatural intervention. 25 Tractate megillah in both the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud contains a version of the story, and in both cases there is a more or less accepting attitude. The Rabbis knew that adjustments were made for ‘King Talmai’ (Ptolemy), though how they understood the exercise is obscure, and a variable number—eleven, seventeen, or even 23 For an excellent analysis of this language of divine possession, see Dines 2004: 64–70.

Christian codex and Jewish tetragrammaton v. Christian abbreviated ‘nomina sacra’. See also Gamble 1995. For the Greek Qumran fragments, see Tov 2003. 22 The eight P. Fouad 266a Genesis fragments do not reveal any of this. There are also signs of textual revision on the first-century bce leather scroll 4Q121 ¼ 4QLXXNum. For the Minor Prophets Scroll, 8HVXIIgr, see below, pp. 225 and 301 n. 75. On material aspects of the text, see Kraft 2003. 23 Wevers 1990: p. xviii. 18 Introduction ruption and alteration in the very early stages of transmission, when the translation resided in separate scrolls that: ‘as a result of these corrections, so far as one can tell there were no two identical or nearly identical scrolls in existence for any book of the Septuagint’.

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