From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Dec 26 1999 - 12:28:08 EST
Cindy
Though now somewhat dated, H.B. Swete is still in print and avaliable at
CBD:
Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek Henry Swete / Hendrickson
Publishers / 1914 ( Type: Hardcover ) CBD Price: $7.95 / CBD Stock No:
WW75214 ISBN: 0943575214
Swete has a short introduction the the Letter of Aristeas as well as the
greek text of the letter.
On Matters related to the LXX and Textual criticism you should see:
Author: Tov, Emmanuel
Title: The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research
Publisher: Simor, Limited, Publ. Date: Oct. 1981
Series Title: Jerusalem Biblical Studies Series Volume: Vol. 3
ISBN FIELDS- ISBN: 9652420034 Binding: Paper Text Page Count: 343
Language: English
Tov also has a number of other books on the LXX which deal with textual
issues in difficult portions of the LXX (e.g., Jeramiah). Tov is also
the author of THE text book on textual criticism of the Hebrew OT.
-- Clayton Stirling Bartholomew Three Tree Point P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062---------- >From: Cindy Smith <cms@dragon.com> >To: Biblical Greek <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu> >Cc: cms@dragon.com >Subject: Re: Septuagint and Greek as a sacred language >Date: Sun, Dec 26, 1999, 8:04 AM >
> I've gotten into a discussion with someone on another list about the > Septuagint and the Greek language. I told the story of the 70 > scholars translating the Hebrew into Greek, and how, for Diaspora > Jews, Greek was once considered a sacred language. I was basically > told that all of this is false by this person. Rather than get into a > debating contest, I was wondering if someone on b-greek could > recommend scholarly book or two giving information on this subject? > Thanks in advance.
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