Scripture in transition: essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea scrolls in honour of Raija Sollamo

Contents\n......Page 6
Preface (Jutta Jokiranta and Anssi Voitila)......Page 12
Bibliography of Raija Sollamo......Page 26
Abbreviations......Page 34
PART ONE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION......Page 40
The Renderings of the Hebrew Preposition l in Predicate Expressions Denoting Transition and Becoming Something in LXX Genesis and Exodus (Katri Tenhunen)......Page 42
The Book of Joshua in the Vulgate (Seppo Sipilä)......Page 58
Flora In Cantico Canticorum Towards a More Precise Characterisation of Translation Technique in the lxx of Song of Songs (Bénédicte Lemmelijn)......Page 68
LXX’s Rendering of Hebrew Proper Names and the Characterisation of Translation Technique of the Book of Judges (Hans Ausloos)......Page 94
“Statute” or “Covenant”? Remarks on the Rendering of theword qj in the Greek Ben Sira (Marko Marttila)......Page 114
Prepositional Phrases in the Septuagint of Ezekiel (Katrin Hauspie)......Page 130
Linguistic or Ideological Shifts? The Problem-Oriented Study of Transformations as a Methodological Filter (Theo A. W. van der Louw)......Page 148
An Ear for an Eye—Lay Literacy and the Septuagint (Cameron Boyd-Taylor)......Page 168
Transcribing, Translating, and Interpreting in the Letter of Aristeas: On the Nature of the Septuagint (Benjamin G. Wright III)......Page 188
Reflections on the ‘Interlinear Paradigm’ in Septuagintal Studies (Jan Joosten)......Page 204
The Promulgation of the Pentateuch in Greek according to the Letter of Aristeas (Arie van der Kooij)......Page 220
Light from 1Qisa on the Translation Technique of the Old Greek Translator of Isaiah (Eugene Ulrich)......Page 234
Isaiah 8:23–9:6 and Its Greek Translation (John J. Collins)......Page 246
The Sour Grapes: Ezekiel 18 (Johan Lust)......Page 264
The Greek Pentateuch and 4 Maccabees  (Robert J. V. Hiebert)......Page 280
Not Quite Angels: A Commentary on Psalm 8 in Greek (Albert Pietersma)......Page 296
A Textual-Exegetical Commentary on Three Chapters in the Septuagint (Emanuel Tov)......Page 316
PART TWO TEXTUAL HISTORY......Page 332
Why Should We Care about the Original Text? (R. Timothy McLay)......Page 334
Old Greek and Later Revisors: Can We Always DistinguishThem? (Peter J. Gentry)......Page 344
On the Name of God in the Old Greek Schøyen Leviticus Papyrus (Kristin De Troyer)......Page 372
Le Seigneur choisira-t-il le lieu de son nom ou l’a-t-il choisi? L’apport de la Bible grecque ancienne à l’histoire du texte samaritain et massorétique (Adrian Schenker)......Page 382
A Kingdom at Stake: Reconstructing the Old Greek—Deconstructing the Textus Receptus (Anneli Aejmelaeus)......Page 396
How to Read the Greek Text behind the Sahidic Coptic (Elina Perttilä)......Page 410
Different Sequences between the Septuagint and Antiochene Texts (Mª Victoria Spottorno)......Page 422
New Hexaplaric Readings to the LXX 1 Kings (Natalio Fernández Marcos)......Page 434
Gedaliah’s Murder in 2 Kings 25:25 and Jeremiah 41:1–3 (Juha Pakkala)......Page 444
The Greek Vorlage of the Ethiopic Text of Ezekiel (Michael A. Knibb)......Page 456
The Nature of Lucian’s Revision of the Text of Greek Job (Claude E. Cox)......Page 466
Introductions to the LXX Pentateuch: Keeping ThingsUpdated (Robert A. Kraft)......Page 486
PART THREE HEBREW AND GREEK LINGUISTICS......Page 492
The Greek of the Bible: Translated Greek or Translation Greek? (Georg Walser)......Page 494
Septuagint Lexicography and Hebrew Etymology (Takamitsu Muraoka)......Page 508
Die Frage nach dem Dativ in lokativischer Bedeutung imNeuen Testament (Lars Aejmelaeus)......Page 516
The Greek Traditions of Proper Names in the Book of First Esdras and the Problems of Their Transfer into a Modern Translation in the Light of a New Finnish Version (Tapani Harviainen)......Page 530
PART FOUR DEAD SEA SCROLLS......Page 542
Shifts in Covenantal Discourse in Second Temple Judaism (Sarianna Metso)......Page 544
Transmitting Divine Mysteries: The Prophetic Role of WisdomTeachers in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Martti Nissinen)......Page 560
The Place of Prophecy in Coming out of Exile: The Case of theDead Sea Scrolls (George J. Brooke)......Page 582
Ruth und Tamar als fremde Frauen in dem DavidischenStammbaum (Pekka Särkiö)......Page 598
David and His Two Women: An Analysis of Two Poems in thePsalms Scroll from Qumran (11Q5) (Bodil Ejrnæs)......Page 622
Qumranic Psalm 91: A Structural Analysis (Mika S. Pajunen)......Page 638
The Temple Scroll: Is It More or Less Biblical? (Magnus Riska)......Page 654
Dwellers at Qumran: Reflections on Their Literacy, SocialStatus, and Identity (Juhana markus Saukkonen)......Page 662
‘Canon’ and Identity at Qumran: An Overview and Challengesfor Future Research (Hanne von Weissenberg)......Page 676
Jesus and the Hemorrhaging Woman in Mark 5:24–34: Insightsfrom Purity Laws from the Dead Sea Scrolls (Cecilia Wassen)......Page 688
PART FIVE PRESENT-DAY......Page 708
‘Reclaiming’ the Septuagint for Jews and Judaism (Leonard Greenspoon)......Page 710
Teaching and Studying Biblical Languages in the Classroomand on the Web: Developments and Experiments at the University of Helsinki since the 1960s (Raimo Hakola and Jarmo Kiilunen)......Page 720
The Bible among Scriptures (Heikki Räisänen)......Page 736
Index of Ancient Sources......Page 752
Index of Modern Authors......Page 784