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This handbook provides a practical guide for the student and scholar alike who wishes to use the Septuagint (LXX) in the text-critical analysis of the Hebrew Bible. It does not serve as another theoretical introduction to the LXX, but it provides all the practical background information needed for the integration of the LXX in biblical studies. The LXX, together with the Masoretic Text and several Qumran scrolls, remains the most significant source of information for the study of ancient Scripture, but it is written in Greek, and many technical details need to be taken into consideration when using this tool. Therefore, a practical handbook such as this is needed for the integration of the Greek translation in the study of the Hebrew Bible.The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research is based on much background information, intuition and experience, clear thinking, and a solid description of the procedures followed. The author presents his handbook after half a century of study of the Septuagint, four decades of specialized teaching experience, and involvement in several research projects focusing on the relation between the Hebrew and Greek Bibles.The first two editions of this handbook, published by Simor of Jerusalem (Jerusalem Biblical Studies 3 [1981] and 8 [1997]), received much praise but have been out of print for a considerable period. This, the third, edition presents a completely revised version of the previous editions based on the many developments that took place in the analysis of the Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible and the Qumran Scrolls. Much new information has also been added.Eisenbrauns has been involved in the marketing of the previous two editions and is proud to offer now its own completely novel edition. A must for students of the Hebrew Bible, textual criticism, the Septuagint and the other ancient translations, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish Hellenism.

Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Versions --- Septuagint. --- Criticism, Textual. --- 221.05*2 --- 221.05*2 Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.

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The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a legend about the miraculous nature of the translation have existed since antiquity. Beginning in the Letter of Aristeas, the legend describes how Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned seventy-two Jewish scribes to translate the sacred Hebrew scriptures for his famous library in Alexandria. Subsequent variations on the story recount how the scribes, working independently, produced word-for-word, identical Greek versions. In the course of the following centuries, to our own time, the story has been adapted and changed by Jews, Christians, Muslims and pagans for many different reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.

Letter of Aristeas. --- Bible. --- Versions --- Septuagint. --- 221.05*2 --- 221.05*5 --- Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Oud Testament: vertalingsproblematiek --- Aristeas' epistle --- Aristeas' letter --- Aristeas to Philocrates --- Aristeae Historia LXXII interpretum --- Historia LXXII interpretum --- Aristeae Ad Philocratem epistula --- Ad Philocratem epistula --- Aristeasbrief --- 221.05*5 Oud Testament: vertalingsproblematiek --- 221.05*2 Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Apocryphal books (Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Greek language, Biblical. --- Hebrew language. --- Bible --- Versions --- Septuagint --- Language, style --- 221.05*2 --- 224.2 --- 221.05*2 Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Jewish language --- Jews --- Semitic languages, Northwest --- Biblical Greek --- New Testament Greek --- Jesaja. Isaias --- Languages --- Bible. --- Book of Isaiah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Ēsaias (Book of the Old Testament) --- Esaïe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Isaia (Book of the Old Testament) --- Isaiah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Isaias (Book of the Old Testament) --- Isaïe (Book of the Old Testament) --- Izaya sho --- Jesaja (Book of the Old Testament) --- Jesajabuch (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sefer Y'sha'yah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yeshaʻyahu (Book of the Old Testament) --- Y'sha'yah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Septuagint. --- Language, style. --- Greek language, Biblical --- Hebrew language