The Bible in Greek: Translation, Transmission, and Theology of the Septuagint

Preface vii  1. BACKGROUND AND BEGINNINGS  1. Origin and Development of the Septuagint in the Context of  Alexandrian and Early Jewish Culture and Learning 3  2. Entstehung und Publikation der Septuaginta im Horizont  frühptolemäischer Bildungs- und Kulturpolitik 47  3. From “Old Greek” to the Recensions: Who and What Caused  the Change of the Hebrew Reference-Text of the Septuagint? 64  4. Translation—Revision—Tradition: Problems and Tasks in the  Historical Books 78  5. “Object of Great Care”: The Prologue to the Wisdom of Jesus,  Son of Sirach, in the Context of Its Genre 94  2. OLD GREEK AND THE RECENSIONS  6. Toward the Old Greek: New Criteria for the Analysis of the  Recensions of the Septuagint (Especially the Antiochene/  Lucianic Text and the Kaige Recension) 113  7. Textformen und Bearbeitungen: Kriterien zur Frage der ältesten  Textgestalt, insbesondere des Septuagintatextes, an Hand von  2 Sam 12 129  8. Translation and Recensions: Old Greek, Kaige, and Antiochene  Text in Samuel and Reigns 154  9. “Lucian Redivivus” or Barthélemy and Beyond? 175  10. Old Greek und Semi-Kaige: Zur Frage hebraisierender Bearbeitung  in den Nicht-Kaige-Abschnitten der Samuel- und Königebücher 194  11. Old Greek, Kaige, and the Trifaria Varietas: A New Perspective  on Jerome’s Statement 219  3. THE SEPTUAGINT AND NEW TESTAMENT QUOTATIONS  12. The Place and Text-Critical Value of the New Testament  Quotations from Dodekapropheton in the Textual History  of the Septuagint 233  4. TWO IMPORTANT TEXTUAL WITNESSES  13. Papyrus 967: Its Significance for Codex Formation, Textual  History, and Canon History 255  14. B or Not B? The Place of Codex Vaticanus in Textual History  and in Septuagint Research 277  15. Original Publications 299  16. Publications on Text and Textual History of the Hebrew Bible  and the Septuagint by Siegfried Kreuzer 303  Indices  Texts 311  Persons and Authors from Antiquity until 1600 319  Modern Authors 320