When God Spoke Greek - The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible

Zusatztext Law has opened an important conversation about the relevance of the Septuagint today (especially for American Christianity) and wisely points to the past and the east for interlocutors. Informationen zum Autor Timothy Michael Law is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Marginalia Review of Books. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Oxford from 2009-2012 and is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany until 2014. He has published more than two-dozen articles and is author or editor of several books, including the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (with Alison Salvesen), and the ongoing OUP series, The Apocrypha in the History of Interpretation (with David Lincicum). He also writes at timothymichaellaw.com. Klappentext Most readers of religious literature have no knowledge of the Bible that was used almost universally by early Christians, or of how that Bible was birthed, how it grew to prominence, and how it differs from the one used as the basis for most modern translations. Timothy Michael Law offers the first book for non-specialists to illuminate the Septuagint and its significance for religious and world history. Zusammenfassung Timothy Michael Law offers the first book for non-specialists to illuminate the Septuagint and its significance for religious and world history.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Michael Law, Timothy Michael (Alexander Von Humboldt Fello Law, Law Timothy Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9780199781713
• ISBN: 978-0-19-978171-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Old Testaments