TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auld,Graeme
TI  - Joshua
T2  - Septuagint Commentary Series
SN  - 9789047405337
AV  - BS1295.53 .A93 2005
U1  - 222/ 2048 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Biblioteca apostolica vaticana
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Vat. gr. 1209
KW  - Bible
KW  - Joshua
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Codex Vaticanus
KW  - Joshua (Bible Book)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Codex Vaticanus (4th cent. CE) includes the oldest, and probably the most important, complete copy of the Greek translation of the biblical book of Joshua (or Jesus, in Greek). The translation had been made some five centuries earlier (2nd cent. BCE) from a Hebrew version of Joshua which differed at many points from the Hebrew text now familiar to us. It was mostly rather literal; and, where it appears surprisingly free, it is often inviting attention to relevant passages in the books of Moses. What the first scribe of the Codex wrote is transcribed uncorrected. The deliberately literal rendering into English on facing pages provides ready access to alternative forms of the many proper names in Joshua. The commentary discusses both translation and exegetical technique
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047405337
ER  -