Septuagint and Reception

A new book on the LXX:

Johann Cook, ed. Septuagint and Reception: essays prepared for the Association for the Study of the Septuagint in South Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2009.

Apparently, it was published in July, but I’ve only just now learned of it. Here’s the description of the book:

A new association for the study of the Septuagint was formed in South Africa recently. The present collection is a compilation of papers delivered at the first conference of this association, as well as other contributions. The volume addresses issues touching on the Septuagint in the broad sense of the word. This includes the Old Greek text (Daniel, Proverbs, Psalms and Lamentations) as well as the reception of the LXX (NT, Augustine and Jerome, etc.). A few contributions that may be regarded as miscellanea are nevertheless related to matters Septuagintal (Aristeas, Peshitta, Eunochos).

It’s published by Brill, so naturally its expensive ($200). I haven’t seen a copy yet, but I was able to see the table of contents through Harvard’s library catalogue, and there are certainly some interesting titles. Here it is in a cleaned-up version.

Jan Joosten, “The prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3) : sources and origin”

Johann Cook, “On the role of external traditions in the Septuagint”

Peter Arzt-Grabner, “Psalms as magic? : P. Vindob. G 39205 revisited”

Randall X. Gauthier, “Examining the ’pluses’ in the Greek Psalter : a study of the Septuagint translation qua communication”

Gideon Kotzé, “The Greek translation of Lamentations : towards a more nuanced view of its ’literal’ character”

Wolfgang Kraus, “Hab 2:3-4 in the Hebrew tradition and in the Septuagint, with its reception in the New Testament”

Gert J. Steyn, “Quotations from the Minor Prophets in Hebrews”

Annette Evans, “Ancient Egyptian elements in Hebrews 1?”

Ronald H. van der Bergh, “Differences between the MT and LXX contexts of Old Testament quotations in the New Testament : Isaiah 45:18-25 as a case study”

Lawrence Ronald Lincoln, “The use of names as evidence of the Septuagint as a source for Josephus’ Antiquities in books 1 to 5”

Johan C. Thom, “Wisdom in the Wisdom of Solomon and Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus”

William Loader, “The strange woman in Proverbs, LXX Proverbs and Aseneth”

Chris L. de Wet, “The reception of the Susanna narrative (Dan. XIII) in early Christianity”

Annemaré Kotzé, “Augustine, Jerome and the Septuagint”

Harry F. van Rooy, “The treatment of Hapax Legomena in MT Ezekiel, in the LXX Ezekiel and Peshitta : a comparative study”

Jacobus A. Naudé, “The role of metatexts in the translations of sacred texts : the case of the Book of Aristeas and the Septuagint”

Jonathan More, “Kingship ideology : a neglected element in Aristeas’ charter myth for Alexandrian Judaism”

Sakkie Cornelius, “‘Eunuchs?’ : the ancient background of Eunouchos in the Septuagint”

Pierre Johan Jordaan, “Reading Judith as therapeutic narrative”

Eugene Coetzer, “Performing Susanna : speech acts and other performative elements in Susanna”

Dichk M. Kanonge, “Reading narratives in the Septuagint : a discourse on method”

I’ll be very interested to see the papers by de Wet on the reception of Susanna among the Fathers and by Kotzé on “Augusitne, Jerome and the Septuagint”. Those two topics feature prominently in my dissertation, which I am now concluding. Perhaps I’ll post some reflections on these articles when I’ve had a chance to read them.