Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts : the Septuagint, Aquila, and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions / by Giuseppe Veltri.

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Veltri, Giuseppe [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
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xi, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Annotation The book deals with the field of decanonization of ancient traditions by the technique of deconstructing their original context; in particular: the process of canonization of the Greek Torah in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian tradition and its decanonization in Rabbinic literature; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies; the decanonization of the book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic literature. On the basis of his analysis, the author concludes that, if a canon is the ability of a text to produce and authorize commentary deconstructing its original context by generalization, de-canonization is the inverse way of contextualizing a "canonical" text by reconstructing the supposed original context. All those interested in intellectual history of Late Antiquity, the history of legends, decanonizations as well as Jewish studies, classical philologist, theologians.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-260) and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction: (De)canonization and deconstruction
    • Libraries and canon : ascent and decline of the Greek Torah
    • Deconstructing history and traditions : the written Torah for Ptolemy
    • Deconstructing translations : the canonical sunstitution Akela/Onkelos
    • (De)canonization in the making : the wisdom of Jesus Ben Sira.
    ISBN
    • 9789004149939 ((alk. paper))
    • 9004149937 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2006040892
    OCLC
    65169025
    International Article Number
    • 9004149937
    • 9789004149939
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