When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
by When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
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The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role in the Bible's history. Many of the Hebrew scriptures were still evolving when they were translated into Greek, and these Greek translations, along with several new Greek writings, became Holy Scripture in the early Church.
Yet, gradually the Septuagint lost its place at the heart of Western Christianity. At the end of the fourth century, one of antiquity's brightest minds rejected the Septuagint in favor of the Bible of the rabbis. After Jerome, the Septuagint never regained the position it once had. Timothy Michael Law recounts the story of the Septuagint's origins, its relationship to the Hebrew Bible, and the adoption and abandonment of the first Christian Old Testament.
Product Details
- Oxford University Press, Brand
- Jul 19, 2013 Pub Date:
- 9780199781720 ISBN-13:
- 0199781729 ISBN-10:
- 240 Pages
- English Language
- 9.2 in * 6 in * 0.7 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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