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When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
Timothy Michael Law
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Description for When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
Paperback. Timothy Michael Law offers the first book for non-specialists to illuminate the Septuagint and its significance for religious and world history. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRCF1; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? 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, ... Read more
How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199781720
SKU
V9780199781720
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99-48
About Timothy Michael Law
Timothy Michael Law is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Marginalia Review of Books. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Oxford from 2009-2012 and is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Georg-August-Universitat Goettingen, Germany until 2014. He has published more than two-dozen articles and is author or editor of several books, including the forthcoming Oxford Handbook ... Read more
Reviews for When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
a splendid work... I haven't found any book so interesting and enjoyable in years
Sir Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History (Emeritus), Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy
It is a gripping tale, beautifully told, and should be of profound interest to any reader of the Jewish or Christian BibleTimothy Michael Law has written the first ... Read more
Sir Fergus Millar, Camden Professor of Ancient History (Emeritus), Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy
It is a gripping tale, beautifully told, and should be of profound interest to any reader of the Jewish or Christian BibleTimothy Michael Law has written the first ... Read more