The articles of this volume aim to contribute to a better understanding of the language of the Septuagint and biblical Greek in general. A large amount of the specific linguistic features of the Septuagint can be explained against the background of the vocabulary and stylistic phenomena of Greek literature and contemporary papyri. Moreover, numerous linguistic features of the Septuagint also occur in the New Testament, in the Apostolic Fathers and in the literature of ancient Christianity. The contributors to the volume consider both the Semitic legacy of these literary collections and their Greek background in the widest sense, including inscriptions and spoken Greek as reflected in papyri. The articles address three major topics: the vocabulary of the Septuagint and the New Testament and its linguistic background; papyri, neologisms and hapaxlegomena; and problems related to the interpretation of difficult passages in biblical and non-biblical Jewish literature. The contributors take into account recent developments in the research landscape, including studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the growing attention to the Septuagint as a version of the Bible to be studied in its own right.

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Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 180, Brill, Leiden, 2019,  édité par Cécile Dogniez et Philippe Le Moigne    

La traduction grecque des Douze Prophètes est intéressante à plus d’un titre. Le caractère littéraire de ces textes légitime le réexamen des protocoles et des procédures stylistiques et poétiques mis en œuvre par le traducteur lors du transfert de l’hébreu au grec. Les acquis récents en histoire textuelle justifient de revenir sur certaines variantes du texte grec, qu’elles relèvent d’une Vorlage différente du texte massorétique ou des procédures textuelles imaginées face à un mot hébreu rare ou à une difficulté exégétique. Les traces d’interprétation obligent ainsi à interroger le milieu de production – culturel, politique ou religieux – de la Septante des Douze. Les lectures juives et chrétiennes du Dodékaprophéton, de Symmaque à l’expression iconographique byzantine, témoignent enfin de l’importance de l’histoire de la réception autant que du texte lui-même.

The Greek translation of the Minor Prophets is interesting from several points of view. The literary character of the texts calls for a re-examination of the stylistic and poetic strategies employed by the translator. Recent developments in the study of textual history justify a fresh study of certain variants in the Greek that may arise either from a non-Masoretic Vorlage or from attempts to deal with rare Hebrew words or exegetical difficulties. Such signs of interpretative activity thus raise questions about the original context in which the Septuagint of the Twelve was produced. Finally, Jewish and Christian readings of the Dodekapropheton testify to the importance of the book’s reception history as well as of the text itself.

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Jan Joosten, Oxford Centre For Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford

–  “Trahir pour mieux traduire. La traduction « contradictoire » dans la Septante” in D. Frey, C. Grappe, M. Wieger, eds., Usages et mésusages de l’Écriture, Écriture et Société (Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2014), 19-30.

 – “The Interplay between Hebrew and Greek in Biblical Lexicology: Language, Text, and Interpretation” in Jan Joosten, Eberhard Bons, Regine Hunziker-Rodewald, Romina Vergari, eds., Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek. Semantics – Exegesis – Translation, BZAW 443 (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015), 209-223.

– “Septuagint and Samareitikon” in Cana Werman, ed., From Author to Copyist: Essays on the Composition, Redaction, and Transmission of the Hebrew Bible in Honor of Zipi Talshir (Winona Lake IN, Eisenbrauns, 2015), 1-15.

–  “Jewish Greek in the Septuagint: On ἐυλογέω ‘to praise’ with Dative” in J. K. Aitken, T. V. Evans, eds., Biblical Greek in Context. Essays in Honour of John A.L. Lee (Biblical Tools and Studies 22; Peeters, Leuven, 2015), 137-144.

 – “Divergent cultic practices in the Septuagint. The “shoulder” (78″9:4 (βραχίων) of the priest”, JSCS 48 (2015), 27-38.

– “Osee / Hosea” in S. Kreuzer, ed., Einleitung in die Septuaginta (LXX.H 1; Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2016), 474-480.

– Cécile Dogniez & Jan Joosten, “Michaias / Micha” in S. Kreuzer, ed., Einleitung in die Septuaginta (LXX.H 1; Gütersloh: Gütersloher, 2016), 490-496.

 – “The Origin of the Septuagint Canon” in Siegfried Kreuzer, Martin Meiser, Marcus Sigismund, eds., Die Septuaginta – Orte und Intentionen (WUNT 361; Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2016), 688-699.

– “Legal Hermeneutics and the Tradition Underlying the Septuagint,” in XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Munich 2013 (ed. by Wolfgang Kraus, Michaël N. van der Meer, Martin Meiser; SBLSCS 64; Atlanta: SBL, 2016), 555-563.

– “The Relation of the Septuagint of Proverbs to the Septuagint of Psalms,” in Septuagint, Sages, and Scripture. Studies in Honour of Johann Cook (ed. by Randall X. Gauthier, Gideon R. Kotzé, Gert J. Steyn; VTS 172; Leiden: Brill, 2016), 99-107.

– “Septuagint Greek and the Jewish Sociolect in Egypt,” in Eberhard Bons, J. Joosten, Die Sprache der Septuaginta/The Language of the Septuagint, LXX.H 3 (Gütersloh, Gütersloher, 2016), 246-256.

Nombre de ces articles sont mis en ligne gratuitement sur la page Academia de J. Joosten : https://oxford.academia.edu/JanJoosten

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Annoncées ici avec l’aimable autorisation de l’auteur :

–  W.B. Seales, C.S. Parker, M. Segal, E. Tov, P. Shor & Y. Porath: “From Damage to Discovery via Virtual Unwrapping: Reading the Scroll from En-Gedi,” Science Advances 2, e1601247 (2016); pp. 1–9.  Télécharger le pdf

– “The Development of the Text of the Torah in Two Major Text Blocks,” Textus 26 (2016).    http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/units.php?cat=5020&incat=4972

– M. Segal, E. Tov, W.B. Seales, C.S. Parker, P. Shor, & Y. Porath: “An Early Leviticus Scroll from En-Gedi: Preliminary Publication,” Textus 26  (2016). Télécharger le pdf