Construction, Coherence and Connotations: Studies on the Septuagint, Apocryphal and Cognate Literature

333 Pages·2016·2.883 MB·English

by  Pierre Johan Jordaan, Nicholas Peter Legh Allen

Construction, Coherence and Connotations
Deuterocanonical and
Cognate Literature Studies
Edited by
Friedrich V. Reiterer, Beate Ego and Tobias Nicklas
Volume 34
Construction,
Coherence
and Connotations
Studies on the Septuagint, Apocryphal and
Cognate Literature
Papers presented at the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South
Africa International Conference at the Faculty of Theology, North-West
University, Potchefstroom, South Africa (28 – 30 August 2015)
Edited by
Pierre Johan Jordaan and Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
ISBN 978-3-11-046426-9
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This book is dedicatedto Prof. Dr Johann Cook, in grateful appreciation for his
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Africa.

Table of Contents
Pierre Johan Jordaan & Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
Introduction 1
Johann Cook
The Relationship Between the Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira and the Septuagint
Version of Proverbs 11
Friedrich Vinzenz Reiterer
Three Poetic Pillars in the Book of Ben Sira: From the Divine to Human
Wisdom 27
Ibolya Balla
Past, Present and Future in the Book of Ben Sira 51
Gideon R. Kotzé
AText-Critical Examination of Different Readings in the Hebrew and Greek
Texts of Ben Sira 35:18 (32:19) 69
Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé and Jacobus A. Naudé
Interpretation and Ideology in the Metatexts of Ben Sira: The Headings of the
Geneva Bible (1560) and the King James Version (1611) 87
Annette H. M. Evans
Angelic Mediation in the Book of Tobit: A Shift in the Deuteronomic
Paradigm? 133
Helen Efthimiadis-Keith
Structural and Psychological Coherence in the Book of Tobit 149
Steve Modugno
Translation Shifts in LXX-Micah as Clues to its Theology and Ideology 165
Risimati S. Hobyane
Reading Judith as a Guide to Jewish Worship in Second Temple Judaism:
A Greimassian Perspective 193
VIII TableofContents
Gerhardus J. Swart
A Study of Connection and Disjunction in the Book of Baruch 207
Joseph Jacobus de Bruyn
Susanna – Framing the Minds and Views of People in Daniel 221
Géza G. Xeravits
A Possible Greek Bible Source for Late Antique Synagogue Art 233
Eugene Coetzer
Coincidence or Coherence? Rhetorical Considerations for Unnatural Elements
in 2 Maccabees 5:1–20 249
Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
Josephus and the Pharisees 261
Index 307
Abbreviations
Thefollowingabbreviationswillbeemployedforallcitedscripturalandclassicalworks.Forthe
purposesofconsistencyandstandardisation,allabbreviationsofperiodicals,seriesandlexi-
conswillfollow,ascloselyaspossible,asystemoriginallyproposedbytheSBLHandbookof
Style and IATG (Siegfried Schwertner, Internationales Abkürzungsverzeichnis für Theologie
undGrenzgebiete,Berlin/NewYork,1992).Singlereferencestobiblicalbooksareabbreviated
accordingtotheSBLHandbookofStyle,e.g.,Gen1:7.Versenumberswithinachapteraresep-
aratedbyacommawithoutaspace(e.g.,Judg7:13–17,20–25).
General
B.C.E. BeforetheCommonEra
C.E. CommonEra
HB HebrewBible
MS(S) Manuscript
NT NewTestament
OT OldTestament
Languages,Versions,andEditionsoftheBiblicalText
Akk Akkadian
Aram Aramaic
GI Greek(Vaticanus)
GII Greek(Sinaiticus)
Gk Greek
Heb Hebrew
Lat Latin
LXX Septuagint
MT MasoreticText
OG OldGreek
Q Qumran
T Targum
Theo Theodotion
Vulg. Vulgate
NIV NewInternationalVersion
BiblicalBooks
Gen Genesis
Exod Exodus
Lev Leviticus
Deut Deuteronomy
Josh Joshua
Judg Judges