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The Reception of Septuagint Words in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian Literature (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen Zum Neuen Testament: 2.Reihe) (English, German and French Edition) by Eberhard Bons (editor), Ralph Brucker (editor), Jan Joosten (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The projected Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint will offer historical studies of Septuagint words, retracing their usage from early Greek authors, over koine Greek and the Septuagint translation itself, into Jewish-Hellenistic and early Christian literature. The latter two of these phases were the object of a workshop held in Bühl (Germany) on January 21 and 22, 2011. The reception of the Septuagint in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity raises many questions touching the lexicon, such as: How do Jewish or Christian authors writing in Greek handle the difference existing for some words between the "biblical" usage created in the Septuagint and the usual meaning in Greek? To what extent is it possible to affirm that New Testament authors borrowed their religious terminology from the Septuagint? Which words of the Septuagint continue in later writings with their specific meaning, and which ones go out of use? Is it possible to observe further semantic developments in the use of "biblical" words by Jewish or Christian authors writing in Greek? These and similar questions are of concern not only to the narrow fields of lexical semantics and philology. More often

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Author
Eberhard Bons (editor), Ralph Brucker (editor), Jan Joosten (editor)
Publisher
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9783161529535
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Religion, History, Judaism

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