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Ausgabe:

Juni/2023

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563-564

Kategorie:

Bibelwissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Gentry, Peter J.

Titel/Untertitel:

Text History of the Greek Ecclesiastes. Introduction to the Göttingen Septuagint Edition of Ecclesiastes.

Verlag:

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2022. 345 S. m. 4 Graph. u. 16 Tab. = De Septuaginta Investigationes (DSI), 017. Geb. EUR 150,00. ISBN 9783525560730.

Rezensent:

Gideon R. Kotzé

In this book, Peter J. Gentry, a well-known specialist in Septuagint studies and co-director of the Hexapla Institute, presents the results of his many years of research on the textual witnesses to LXX Ecclesiastes and the history of its text. It is an expanded version, in English, of the introduction to his Göttingen critical edition of LXX Ecclesiastes which was published in 2019. The goal of the book is to assist readers to observe the method and principles of textual criticism that G. employed to establish and reconstruct the earliest obtainable version of the text of LXX Ecclesiastes.

The book consists of three long sections and five shorter ones that are largely made up of lists. The first long section provides an overview of the available textual witnesses, the ...


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