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Septuagint Seminar: 01ON6105 Septuagint Seminar: 01ON6105 Reformed Theological Seminary Jackson, Mississippi Fall 2019 (Monday, 9:00–11:00 AM) Miles V. Van Pelt, Ph.D. Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages Course Description This course aims to introduce the student to the critical use of the Septuagint as a tool in biblical studies. The Septuagint (LXX) is a ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, a massive project begun in Alexandria, Egypt approximately two hundred years before the birth of Christ. The study of the Septuagint is vital for our understanding of the New Testament, the Greek language, and the history of the transmission and inter- pretation of the Hebrew Bible. The study of ancient Bible translations also helps us to beer understand many of the issues surrounding modern Bible translations. A working knowledge of Hebrew and Greek is required for this course. Objectives 1. To gain a working knowledge of the history of the transmission of the Greek Text. 2. To develop skill in the use of the apparatus of critical editions of the Septuagint. 3. To beer understand issues of translation technique and theory. 4. To develop appropriate methodology in using the Septuagint for Old Testament textual criticism as well as issues related to the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament. 6. To gain linguistic skill in the characteristics of Hellenistic Greek as represented by the Septuagint and improve our skills in Hebrew in their comparison. Course Protocols 1. Grading Schedule. The leer grading scale is stipulated by the institutional catalogue and is summarized below. 97-100% A 80-82% C 94-96% A- 78-79% C- 91-93% B+ 75-77% D+ 88-90% B 72-74% D 86-87% B- 70-71% D- 83-85% C+ 0-69% F - 1 - 2. A;endance and Late Assignments. AZendance is mandatory. Students are expected to be on time and prepared for each class session. Late assignments may be accepted with a penalty of one leer grade per day late. 3. Electronics. Voice recorders are not permied in class. Please silence all cell phones during class. 4. Special Needs. In order to ensure full class participation, any student with a disabling condition requiring special accommodations (e.g. tape recorders, special adaptive equipment, special note-taking or test-taking needs) is strongly encouraged to contact the professor at the beginning of the course. 5. Disclaimer. This syllabus is intended to reflect accurately the learning objectives, instructional format, and other information necessary for students to appraise the course. However, during the course of the term, the instructor reserves the right to modify any portion of this syllabus as may appear necessary because of events and circumstances that occur during the semester. Requirements 1. Primary Literature. Weekly translation assignments (see course schedule), in both Greek and Hebrew, will occupy the first hour of the course each week. Students must come to class with these translation assignments completed. These translation assignments constitute 30% of the total course grade. A final translation exam will also be given at the end of the course constituting 10% of the course grade. 2. Secondary Literature. All students will read Invitation to the Septuagint and one of the other books listed below, as well as other selected resources as described in the course schedule. A five-page book review is required for each of the two main books. These assignments constitute 30% of the total course grade. All students read (5 page book review): Jobes, Karen H. and Moisés Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000, 2015. Select one of the following (5 page book review): Fernández Marcos, Natalio. The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Harrington, Daniel J. Invitation to the Apocrypha. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Hengel, M. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of its Canon. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002. McLay, R. Timothy. The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003. Tov, Emanuel. The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research. Rev. ed. Simor: Jerusalem, 1981, 1997. - 2 - 3. Seminar Paper and Presentation. Each student will produce a major paper analyzing a selected aspect of translation technique comparing the Greek and Hebrew text of Ecclesiastes. In addition to the production of the formal paper, students will present their work to the class in seminar format. This assignment constitute 30% of the total course grade. Schedule August 26 Introduction and Syllabus September 2 Labor Day 9 Ecclesiastes 1 Read – Jobes, Karen H. and Moisés Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000, 2015. 16 Ecclesiastes 2 Read – Peter J. Gentry, “The Text of the Old Testament,” JETS 52.1 (2009) 19–45. 23 Ecclesiastes 3 Read – Peter J. Gentry, “The Septuagint and the Text of the Old Testament,” Bulletin for Biblical Research 16.2 (2006) 193–218. 30 Ecclesiastes 4 Read – Emanuel Tov, “The Septuagint,” In Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpre- tation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. M. Mulder (Assen: Van Gorcum; Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988), 161-188. October 7 Reading Week 14 Ecclesiastes 5 Read – van der Kooij, A. “Perspectives on the Study of the Septuagint. Who are the Translators?” in Perspectives in the Study of the Old Testament and Early Judaism. A Symposium in Honour of Adam S. van der Woude on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, edited by F. García Martínez (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 73; Leiden: Brill, 1998), 214-229. 21 Ecclesiastes 6 Read – Miles V. Van Pelt, “The Greek Translation of the Article in Qoheleth: A Study in Translation Technique.” Unpublished paper. 28 1 Kings 17 *Book reviews due with summary presentations in class November 4 1 Kings 18:1-23 Student Presentation(s) - 3 - 11 1 Kings 18:24-46 Student Presentation(s) November 18 1 Kings 19 Student Presentation(s) 25 1 Kings 20:1-21 Student Presentation(s) 2 1 Kings 20:22-43 Student Presentation(s) 9 Final Exam (Ecclesiastes 1-6 and 1 Kings 17-20) Additional Bibliography Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Trans. and rev. by W.F. Arndt and F.W. Gingrich. 2nd ed. rev. by F.W. Brock, S. “The Phenomenon of the Septuagint,” in Oudtestamentische Studiën (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972), 11-36. Brock, Sebastian P., Charles T. Fritsch and Sidney Jellicoe. A Classified Bibliography of the Septuagint. Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des Hellenistischen Juden- tums, 6. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1973. Dines, Jennifer M. The Septuagint. London: T. & T. Clark, 2004. Dogniez, Cécile. Bibliography of the Septuagint / Bibliographie de la Septante (1970- 1993). Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 60, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1995. Fernández Marcos, Natalio. “Rewrien Bible or Imitatio? The Vestments of the High Priest.” In Studies in the Hebrew Bible, Qumran, and the Septuagint Presented to Eugene Ulrich, edited by Peter W. Flint, Emanuel Tov and James C. VanderKam. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 101, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006. Fernández Marcos, Natalio. The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible. Leiden: Brill, 2000. Gentry, Peter J., ed. Ecclesiastes. Septuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum, vol. 11. GöZingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. Hengel, M. and Anna Maria Schwemer, eds. Die Septuaginta zwischen Judentum und Christentum. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 72) Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1994. Hengel, M. The Septuagint as Christian Scripture: Its Prehistory and the Problem of its Canon. Translated by Mark E. Biddle. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002. Honigman, Sylvie. The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the Le]er of Aristeas. London: Routledge, 2003. - 4 - Jellicoe, Sidney. The Septuagint and Modern Study. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Jobes, Karen H. and Moisés Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000. Karrer, Martin, and Wolfgang Kraus, eds. Die Septuaginta - Texte, Kontexte, Lebens- welten. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 20.-23. Juli 2006. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 219. Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 2008. Kraus, Wolfgang, and R. Glenn Wooden. Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures. Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 53. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 2006. Liddell, Henry George, and Robert ScoZ. A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. Revised by Henry Stuart Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. Lust, Johan, Erik Eynikel and Katrin Hauspie. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. 2 vols. Stugart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1992, 1996. Muraoka, T. A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint: Chiefly of the Pentateuch and the Twelve Prophets. Leuven: Peeters, 2002. Norton, G. “Cautionary Reflections on a Re-edition of Fragments of Hexaplaric Mate- rial,” in Tradition of the Text: Studies offered to Dominique Barthélemy in Celebration of his 70th Birthday, eds. Gerard J. Norton and Stephen Pisano (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 109; GöZingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991), 129-155. Peters, Melvin K. H. “Septuagint.” The Anchor Bible Dictionary. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Vol. V, 1093-1104. Pietersma, Albert. “Septuagintal Exegesis and the Superscriptions of the Greek Psalter.” In The Book of Psalms: Composition and Reception edited by Peter W. Flint and Patrick D. Miller, Jr. (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 94; Leiden: Brill, 2005), 443-475. Rahlfs, Alfred. Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testament. Sep- tuaginta Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Vol. I/1. Die Überlieferung bis zum VIII. Jahrhundert edited by D. Fraenkel. GöZingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004. Smyth, Herbert Weir. Greek Grammar. Harvard, 1920, 1956. Swete, Henry Barclay. An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1902. Revised by R. R.
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