A Question of Methodology: Albert Pietersma, Collected Essays on the Septuagint (Biblical Tools and Studies) - Hardcover

Boyd-Taylor, C

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042925949 ISBN 13: 9789042925946

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Albert Pietersma has long been known as a champion of rigorousmethodology. The present volume brings together under one cover his keypapers on the critical study of the Septuagint. Together they present anevolving hermeneutic of translation that promises to reconciledescriptive analysis of the text (which aims at explanation) with thetask of interpretation (which aims at understanding). The division ofthe volume into three parts corresponds roughly to three distinct stagesin Pietersma's published work. The text critical studies of Part I laythe foundations for the exegetical investigations of Part II, which inturn open onto the hermeneutic discussion of more recent years, represented in Part III. The bulk of the material deals with the GreekPsalter, which has been a primary focus for Pietersma. This gives thecontents of the volume a high-degree of thematic unity; it will no doubtprove invaluable for those currently working on the Psalter. At the sametime, the breadth of Pietersma's scholarship, and the significance ofthe methodological and hermeneutic issues he addresses, will make thebook an important resource for all biblical scholars and students ofearly Judaism and Christianity, especially those working on theHebrew-Greek translations of antiquity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042925949
• ISBN 13: 9789042925946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Boyd-Taylor C