Published in Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
Critical editions, translations, and scholarly discussions typically treat Luke 20,18 as a separate logion from the preceding quotation from Ps 118 (MT; LXX 117) in Luke 20,17 that ends Jesus’ telling of the parable of the wicked tenants. Despite its separation from the quote, scholars have typically seen in the line allusions to Isa 8,14–15 and Da...
Published in Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Although the Dialogue of Timothy and Aquila is set in Alexandria under the Patriarchate of Cyril (first half of the 5th century), scholars have attempted to identify an earlier version of the text, dating it to the 3d century. This alleged earlier version, however, is not extant as such, and the present article will show that the author of the Dial...
Published in Review of Ecumenical Studies
The eye is a complex anthropological term in the Old Testament theology. The eye represents insight, mindfulness, but also it is an entrance for malefic influences. This article will scrutinize the magical function of the eye in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the connection of the eye with evil. The Hebrew terms of the Masoretic Text will be compared...
The semantics of New Testament words is a complex subject as these words often have backgrounds consisting of a usage in both extrabiblical Greek literature and the Septuagint, in extension also being the object of Hebraic influence. Καρδία, often translated ”heart”, is no exception. In some Greek literature, the organ is referred to literally, bu...
In an era when more and more manuscript scholarship is taking place on the internet, through digital manuscripts, databases and electronic publishing, there is a corresponding and growing need among scholars for flexible and creative ways to create clear and coherent online manuscript descriptions. This article presents a prototype of a tool, curre...
This thesis defends the following argument: 1\. Signs of macro-structural planning indicate a translator has monitored the performance of the product as Greek discourse. 2\. Unique target language items that generate inferences in the product are one sign of macro-structural planning. 3\. The product contains unique target language items that gener...
La péricope de la reine venue du lointain Saba et se rendant à Jérusalem pour éprouver Salomon par des énigmes (1 R 10,1-13) constitue la porte d’entrée de ce travail de recherche qui conduit à une réévaluation de la progression narrative du macro-récit sur Salomon en 1 R 2-11 et à la reformulation de son histoire rédactionnelle. Dans le débat actu...
In this chapter I discuss cases in which grammatical agreement is overruled by semantic agreement, exemplified with Greek hybrid nouns of the Mädchen type. After a brief overview of non-canonical genders in Greek, i.c. common and epicene, I discuss the case of hybrid nouns, i.e. nouns whose agreement varies according to the agreement target in acco...
The analysis of Genesis 47: 5-7 in the Greek version of the Septu-agint and the Masoretic Text raises a double question: a problem of literary nature and one of textual criticism. Thus, a different Vorlage in the LXX text and different from the MT, an error in the textual transmission, or an attempt to reorganize the text in the Septuagint and the ...
Adjectives used of god serve a function in the Septuagint comparable to praise epithets in Greek religious traditions. Irrespective of the functions of the words in Hebrew, the translators chose vocabulary that conformed to Greek epithets, either by taking existing epithets in the language or choosing words that followed the conventions of epithet ...
