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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Linguistic and Cultural Setting | |
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| Biblical Greek and its Position within koine | |
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| History of Research | |
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| Comparison with the Papyri | |
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| The New Approach of Bilingualism | |
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| The Technical Language of Hellenistic Prose | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Septuagint as a Translation | |
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| An Unprecedented Event | |
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| A Range of Translation Techniques | |
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| Modern Linguistics and the Translation Process | |
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| The Origins of the Septuagint | |
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| The Letter of Pseudo-Aristeas and Other Ancient Sources | |
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| The Jews of Alexandria | |
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| Description and Contents of the Letter | |
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| Historicity | |
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| Date of Composition and Sources | |
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| Purpose of the Letter | |
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| The Letter in Jewish Tradition | |
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| Later Legend concerning the Origin of the Septuagint | |
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| The Completion of the Septuagint | |
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| Modern Interpretations of the Origins of the Septuagint | |
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| The Septuagint as a Greek Targum (P. Kahle) | |
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| An Alexandrian Origin but in the Maccabean Period (c. 146 BCE) | |
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| A Palestinian Origin | |
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| A Liturgical Origin | |
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| The Transcription Theory | |
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| Other Theories | |
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| The Proto-Septuagint | |
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| The Septuagint and the Hebrew Text | |
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| Two Texts Face to Face | |
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| Qumran and the Septuagint | |
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| The Use of the Septuagint in Hebrew Textual Criticism | |
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| Textual Criticism and Literary Criticism | |
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| The Double Texts of the Greek Bible and Targumism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Double Texts in the Septuagint | |
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| Targumism | |
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| The Septuagint in Jewish Tradition | |
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| Aquila and his Predecessors | |
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| Ancient Witnesses | |
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| The Sources of this Version | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Current Research and Future Prospects | |
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| Symmachus the Translator | |
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| Ancient Witnesses | |
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| Sources for Symmachus | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Current Research and Future Prospects | |
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| Theodotion and the [characters not reproducible] Revision | |
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| Ancient Witnesses | |
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| Sources | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Current Research and Future Prospects | |
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| Other Ancient Versions | |
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| The Quinta (E') | |
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| The Sexta (Z') | |
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| The Septima | |
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| The Hebrew | |
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| The Syrian | |
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| The Samariticon | |
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| Josephus the Translator | |
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| Jewish Versions into Mediaeval and Modern Greek | |
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| Witnesses | |
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| Relationship to Earlier Jewish Versions | |
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| The Septuagint in Christian Tradition | |
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| Transmission and Textual History | |
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| Introduction | |
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| External Transmission | |
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| Internal Transmission | |
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| Textual Restoration | |
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| Origen's Hexapla | |
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| Origen and his Knowledge of Hebrew | |
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| The Hexapla | |
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| The Fifth Column of the Hexapla and the secunda | |
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| The Lucianic Recension | |
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| Ancient Witnesses | |
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| History of Research | |
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| Characteristics | |
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| Current Research and Future Prospects: The Proto-Lucianic Text | |
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| Hesychian Recension or Alexandrian Group of Manuscripts? | |
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| Ancient Witnesses | |
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| The History of Research | |
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| Hesychian Recension or Alexandrian Revision? | |
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| Other Revisions | |
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| Pre-Hexaplaric Revisions | |
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| Para-Hexaplaric Revisions | |
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| Indirect Transmission: Biblical Quotations | |
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| The Septuagint in Hellenistic Jewish Historians | |
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| The Septuagint in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha | |
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| The Septuagint in Philo and Josephus | |
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| The Septuagint in the New Testament, Apostolic Fathers and Apologists | |
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| The Septuagint in Inscriptions and Papyri | |
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| Quotations from the Fathers and the Septuagint | |
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| Aporiai and Biblical Commentaries | |
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| Aporiai | |
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| Commentaries | |
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| The Literature of the Catenae | |
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| Formation of the Literary Genre | |
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| Formal Aspects of Catenary Manuscripts | |
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| Textual Contents of the Catenae | |
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| Methodology for Studying the Catenae | |
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| Catenary Manuscripts in Spanish Libraries | |
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| The Septuagint and Christian Origins | |
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| The Religion of the Septuagint and Hellenism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Hellenisation of the Jews | |
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| The Hellenisation of the Septuagint | |
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| The Formal Hellenisation of the Wisdom Writings | |
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| The Septuagint and the New Testament | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Quotations of the Old Testament in the New | |
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| Other Areas of Influence | |
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| The Septuagint and Early Christian Literature | |
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| The Bible of the Fathers | |
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| The Septuagint and Christian Greek | |
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| The Septuagint Translated | |
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| Glossary of Technical Terms | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |
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| Index of Biblical Quotations | |
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| Abbreviations | |