Timothy Michael Law (Alexander von H Alexander von Humboldt Fellow

When God Spoke Greek

The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible

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Produktbeschreibung

Timothy Michael Law offers the first book for non-specialists to illuminate the Septuagint and its significance for religious and world history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780199781720
• ISBN-10: 0199781729
• Artikelnr.: 37256632

Autorenporträt

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-Universität Göttingen, Germany until 2014. He has published more than two-dozen articles and is author or editor of several books, including the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (with Alison Salvesen), and the ongoing OUP series, The Apocrypha in the History of Interpretation (with David Lincicum). He also writes at timothymichaellaw.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
1 Why this Book?
2 When the World Became Greek
3 Was There a Bible before the Bible?
4 The First Bible Translators
5 Gog and his Not-so-Merry Grasshoppers
6 Bird Droppings, Stoned Elephants, and Exploding Dragons
7 E Pluribus Unum
8 The Septuagint behind the New Testament
9 The Septuagint in the New Testament
10 The New Old Testament
11 God's Word for the Church
12 The Man of Steel and the Man who Worshipped the Sun
13 The Man with the Burning Hand vs. the Man with the Honeyed Sword
14 A Postscript
Notes
Index