In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

by K. De Troyer

Description The book contains a preface by the Three (editors) and has fivesections—all befitting the recipient of this Festschrift with herinterest in Septuagint and Textual Criticism. The first part of thebook, entitled The Septuagint. Origins and Translations containsarticles on what a translator is and does (such as the contribution fromBenjamin G. Wright and Joachim Schaper) or how LXXGenesis functions asthe first translation of Scripture (Emanuel Tov) and contains numerousarticles on idioms and accuracy (John A.L. Lee), on lexical variation(Arie van der Kooij) and on renderings of nouns (Bénédicte Lemmelijn),verbs (Anssi Voitila), tenses (Raimund Wirth), semi-prepositions (RaijaSollamo), particles (Michael N. van der Meer) or lexical expressions andthemes such as the "end of times" (Staffan Olofsson) or `labouring women(Takamitsu Muraoka), etc. In the second part, entitled The Septuagintand the Versions. Textual Criticism and Text History, the books that arefocused on are Samuel and Kings (with contributions by Jan Joosten,Philippe Hugo, Zipora Talshir, Siegfried Kreuzer, Andrés Piquer Otero,Pablo Torijano Morales, Juha Pakkala, Christian Seppanen) and Joshua(with contributions by Seppo Sipilä and Julio Trebolle Barrera). Then,there are also studies on textual issues and text history of Isaiah(Anna Kharanauli), Ezechiel (Johan Lust), Job (Claude Cox), Ecclesiastes(Peter J. Gentry) and Minor Prophets (Hans Ausloos). The third part ofthis volume is entitled The Septuagint in New Testament and ChristianUse and contains two contributions on textual links between LXX and theNew Testament (contributions by Tuukka Kauhanen and Georg A. Walser) andpatristic texts (contributions by Reinhart Ceulemans and KatrinHauspie). A fourth part of the volume is devoted to The Septuagint inJewish Tradition (with contributions on how the Tabernacle Account wasreceived in Hellenistic Judaism by Alison Salvesen and `Seeking "theSeptuagint" in a Scroll Dependent World' by Robert A. Kraft). The finalpart of the volume is dedicated to The Hebrew Bible and the Dead SeaScrolls. It opens with an attempt by Martti Nissinen to answer thequestion: `Since when do Prophets Write?' Then, there is thecontribution by George J. Brooke who offers a variant on the issue ofvariant editions, albeit from the perspective of the scrolls. EugeneUlrich explores the fine balance between intentional variants andisolated insertions in 4QSama and the MT. Sarianna Metso offers anarticle on the Leviticus traditions at Qumran and Jutta Jokiranta offersa reflection on `the stranger' in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea. Thecontribution by Hanne von Weissenberg forms a nice inclusion with theopening contribution by Benjamin G. Wright as it too focuses onAuthority.