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The Bible, its languages and its translations
We often refer to the Bible as the Book, emphasizing its status as the single most important, fundamental text of Christianity, perhaps even of the entire Western civilization. What tends to slip our mind, however, is the plurality of its linguistic origins – its various translations, source texts, revisions… After identifying the languages in which the Bible was written, and analyzing the characteristics of each, the question of translation arises: is translation necessarily a betrayal? How should we approach the Word amidst all this plurality? To explore these questions The World of the Bible asked a number of specialists to examine different ancient versions of the Bible: the first Masoretic texts, the Alexandrian version, the Eastern, the Western, the Latin, and last but not least, the one by Romano-Jewish scholar Flavius Josephus. We then conclude our inquiry by going over the history of the English translations, their incredible plurality within a single language.
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Le Livre de Jérémie en Perspective
Les vingt-trois publications reprises dans ce volume sont consacrées à la LXX de Jérémie et à Baruch son secrétaire. Elles visent pour la plupart à montrer que le texte hébreu reçu (TM, texte long) est une refonte d'un modèle hébreu traduit en grec et conservé dans la Septante (LXX, texte court placé sous la responsabilité de Baruch). Pour ce faire, P.-M. Bogaert a mis en oeuvre une exégèse «différentielle» qui compare, analyse et explique les divergences entre les deux formes du livre. L'ouvrage commence par des contributions plus générales; les suivantes portent sur des passages choisis en fonction de leur intérêt: différence de contenu et différence d'ordre. Une dernière contribution, inédite, offre une synthèse provisoire visant à caractériser le texte court pour lui-même. Le recueil est introduit par une préface en anglais du Professeur Emanuel Tov, de l'Université hébraïque de Jérusalem.
The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible
"The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the Latin Bible, with a summary of the contents of each chapter in this Handbook and the rationale for their arrangement. It then discusses the terminology for referring to the Latin Bible, along with a mini-glossary of specialist terms in manuscript and textual studies which appear in the chapters. The principal editions of the Latin Bible are introduced, along with other resources for its study such as book series and databases. Finally, the conventions for the Handbook are explained, such as spelling practices for Latin and proper nouns"--
Judith
Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since. This commentary provides a detailed analysis of the text's composition and its meaning in its original historical context, and thoroughly surveys the history of Judith scholarship. Lawrence M. Wills not only considers Judith's relation to earlier biblical texts--how the author played upon previous biblical motifs and interpreted important biblical passages--but also addresses the rise of Judith and other Jewish novellas in the context of ancient Near Eastern and Greek literature, as well as their relation to cross-cultural folk motifs. Because of the popularity of Judith in art and culture, this volume also addresses the book's history of interpretation in paintings, sculpture, music, drama, and literature. A number of images of artistic depictions of Judith are included and discussed in detail.
The Hebrew Bible Manuscripts: A Millennium
In The Hebrew Bible: A Millennium, manuscripts, texts, and methods applied in Hebrew Bible studies are considered through time. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo and European Genizot, as well as Late Medieval Biblical Manuscripts are examined.
Lectures et relectures de la Bible
L'activite scientifique du Professeur P.-M. Bogaert (Louvain-la-Neuve) couvre un vaste domaine qui va de l'etude de l'Ancien Testament hebreu a la reception du texte biblique durant l'ere chretienne (ecrits intertestamentaires, bible latine, bibles en francais) en passant par l'etude de la Septante et de ses versions latines. C'est a cette oeuvre d'envergure que ce volume de melanges entend donner un echo, tout en rendant honneur a P.-M. Bogaert. Faisant suite a la bibliographie commentee du jubilaire (J.-M. Auwers et J. Ponthot), une bonne vingtaine de collegues lui rendent hommage en traversant tour a tour les prophetes de l'A.T. (M. Vervenne, F. Goncalves, J. Vermeylen, B. Renaud, J. Lust), la Septante et la Vetus Latina (A. Schenker, J.W. Wevers, R. Hanart, J.-Cl. Haelewyck, M. Gilbert, M. Harl, A. Wenin), les ecrits inter- et neo-testamentaires (E. Tov, J.-M. van Cangh, C. Focant, J.-M. Sevrin) et la reception posterieure des ecrits bibliques (S. Brock, G. Dorival, F. Dolbeau, J.-P. Delville, A. Kabasele Mukenge).
Studies in Textual Criticism
Twenty-eight rewritten and updated essays on the textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly published between 2019 and 2022 are presented in the fifth volume of the author's collected essays. They are joined by an unpublished study, an unpublished "reflection" on the development of text-critical research in 1970-2020 and the author's academic memoirs. All the topics included in this volume are at the forefront of textual research.
