Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts : the Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions

Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts : the Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions / by Giuseppe Veltri.

The book deals with the field of decanonization of ancient traditions by the technique of deconstructing their original context; in particular: the process of canonization of the Greek Torah in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian tradition and its decanonization in Rabbinic literature; the use and abus...

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Main Author: Veltri, Giuseppe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Series:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 109.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Canon.
Bible. > Old Testament > Translating.
Bible. > Old Testament. > Greek > Versions > Septuagint.
Bible. > Old Testament. > Greek > Versions > Aquila.
Bible. > Ecclesiasticus.
Canon
Bible. > Ecclesiasticus
Bible. > Old Testament
Bibel > Altes Testament
Bibel > Altes Testament > Septuaginta
Rabbinical literature > Comparative studies.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
Rabbinical literature
Hellenistisch-jüdische Literatur
Kanon
Rabbinische Literatur
Oude Testament.
Canon.
Bijbelvertalingen.
Grieks.
Comparative studies
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION: (DE)CANONIZATION AND DECONSTRUCTION
  • Torah as the Unique Gift: The Traditional Pattern and the Tripartite Canon
  • Canon as Censorship
  • Deconstruction and Decanonization: A Paradigmatic Model
  • The Present Study: Several Concrete Examples of Decanonization
  • 1. LIBRARIES AND CANON: ASCENT AND DECLINE OF THE GREEK TORAH
  • 1.1 Jewish-Hellenistic Sources of the Legend: The Greek Torah
  • 1.2 Christian Theology: From the Veritas Graeca to the Veritas Hebraica
  • 1.3 (De)canonization of Libraries or Between Alexandria, Athens, and Jerusalem2. DECONSTRUCTING HISTORY AND TRADITIONS: THE WRITTEN TORAH FOR PTOLEMY
  • 2.1 Changed Verses as Midrashic Parenthetic Reference
  • 2.2 Deconstructed Elements and Contextual Stories
  • 2.3 Hermeneutics and Canon
  • 3. DECONSTRUCTING TRANSLATIONS: THE CANONICAL SUBSTITUTION AQUILA/ONKELOS
  • 3.1 Translation as Production of Texts: The Sacred Tongue
  • 3.2 Targumic Rendering as Mediation of Teaching
  • 3.3 The Targumim of Aquila and Onkelos: Canonical Substitution
  • 4. (DE)CANONIZATION IN THE MAKING: THE WISDOM OF JESUS BEN SIRA4.1 The Greek Prologue to the Book of Ben Sira
  • 4.2 Ben Siraâ€?s Quotations in Rabbinical Sources
  • 4.3 Wisdom and Rabbinic Literature: A Struggle for Authority
  • 4.4 A Decanonized Author
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Primary Texts
  • Modern Authors
  • DOCUMENTATION STYLE, TRANSLITERATION AND REFERENCES
  • INDEX OF REFERENCES
  • 1. Hebrew Bible
  • 2. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
  • 3. Jewish Hellenistic Literature
  • 4. New Testament
  • 5. Greek and Roman Authors
  • 6. Rabbinic Literature7. Church Fathers
  • 8. Jewish Medieval Texts and Authors
  • INDEX OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL NAMES
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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