The present volume rounds off the trilogy of conference contributions on the theology of the Septuagint. Its aim is to give experts free rein to express themselves on the »past - present - future« triptych of the Septuagint.
The present volume rounds off the trilogy of conference contributions on the theology of the Septuagint. As with the two preceding volumes (WUNT 387 and 432), experts who have earned particular merit in their individual fields of research and whose methodical reflection is rooted in a love of the Greek translation of the Old Testament are given free rein to express themselves on the »past - present - future« triptych of the Septuagint.
Table of contents:
Natural and Moral Evil
Christoph Elsas: Iranian and Greek dualistic concepts of physical and moral Evil. Towards the religious historical background of the Septuagint-Theology -
Evangelia G. Dafni: Das Böse und Gottes Gerechtigkeit im Alten Testament und in Euripides
Hippolytos . Zur Klärung des kulturellen und sprachtheologischen Hintergrunds der Septuaginta -
Mario Cimosa: Philo of Alexandria: His exegesis of some aspects of sin and evil in the Septuagint version of the Book of Genesis -
Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: Sin and evil according to Philo of Alexandria. Some traces of his exegesis in Genesis in some Christian authors
Law and Justice
Arie van der Kooij: Law and righteousness in LXX Isaiah and other writings of the time -
Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros: ὁδὸς ἀληθείας, τρίβος δικαιοσύνης. Introducing textual variant readings, contextual settings and translation techniques concerning justice-oriented terms in LXX-Isaiah -
Martin Rösel: Das Gesetz bei den Propheten. Zur Übersetzung der Gesetzesterminologie im griechischen Dodekapropheton -
Christoph Elsas: Septuagint's understanding of Purim within the history of religion, law, and justice -
Peter Nagel: The δίκαιος concept in the »additions« to the Esther narrative - is there justice for Asthi and Esther? -
Mario Cimosa:Lex et religio in the Book of Job according to the Greek text -
Gert J. Steyn: Loving your neighbour (Lev 19:18) as a
»royal law according to scripture...« (Jas 2:8) -
Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: The relationship between law and justice -
Constantine A. Bozinis: Greek justice
Jerusalem and Babylon
Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: Babylon and Jerusalem, Destruction or Resurrection. The idea of Babylon and Jerusalem in the interpretation of Saint Irenaeus in
Adversus haereses V, 25ff. -
Martin Meiser: Exodus 22:27[28]LXX in Ancient Jewish and Christian literature -
Kyle Young: Coping with code-switching between Jerusalem and Babylon: Hebrew and Aramaic in OG and Theodotian Daniel and 1 Esdras, and 2 Esdras -
Helen Efthimiadis-Keith: Theologising rape. The rape of Dinah / Jerusalem and Holofernes / 'Assyria' in Judith's Prayer -
Kristin De Troyer: How a story from Susa was interpreted in the Greek world -
Arie van der Kooij: Jerusalem and Babylon in the Old Greek of Isaiah -
Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros: The negative town. Semasiological wordplays and wordings towards the theological polarity of Babylon in LXX Isaiah 13 and 14 -
Gideon R. Kotzé: The Lord's positively hostile actions against Jerusalem in LXX Lamentations 2:5 -
Jaco Gericke: Jerusalem (Alexandria) and Babylon (Athens). ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ ΙΕΡΕΜΙΟΥ and ancient »philosophical theology« -
Evangelia G. Dafni: LXX-Jesaja 25,8, LXX-Jeremia 28(51),34.44 und ihr ugaritischer Hintergrund (KTU2 1.5 I 5f.=32-35). Osmose- oder Diffusionsprozesse im Alten Orient und Alten Testament?
