Free Download Gilles Dorival, "The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople: Canon, New Testament, Church Fathers, Catenae"
English | ISBN: 0192898094 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 1082 KB
The Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek in Alexandria by Jewish scholars in the third century BCE, and other ‘biblical’ books followed to form the so-called Septuagint. Since the Septuagint contains a number of books and passages that are not part of the Hebrew Bible, the study of the Septuagint is essential to any account of the canon of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. However, the situation is complex because the Greek text of the Old Testament quoted in the New Testament and in the Church Fathers does not always match the Septuagint text as given by the earliest codices. Furthermore, it must be asked to what extent these texts of the Septuagint may have been Christianized.
