This text deals with the origins of the Septuagint, the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. It discusses its linguistic and cultural frame and its relation to the hebrew text and to the Qumran documents. It includes the early revisions and the Christian recensions as well as other issues such as the relation of the Septuagint to Hellenism, to the New Testament and to early Christian literature.
This text deals with the origins of the Septuagint, the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek. It discusses its linguistic and cultural frame and its relation to the hebrew text and to the Qumran documents. It includes the early revisions and the Christian recensions as well as other issues such as the relation of the Septuagint to Hellenism, to the New Testament and to early Christian literature.
