Timothy Michael Law: When God Spoke Greek

Cover: 9780199781720 | When God Spoke Greek | Timothy Michael Law | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den 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 [...].

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

1 Why this Book?

2 When the World Became Greek

3 Was There a Bible before the Bible?

4 The First Bible Translators

5 Gog and his Not-so-Merry Grasshoppers

6 Bird Droppings, Stoned Elephants, and Exploding Dragons

7 E Pluribus Unum

8 The Septuagint behind the New Testament

9 The Septuagint in the New Testament

10 The New Old Testament

11 God's Word for the Church

12 The Man of Steel and the Man who Worshipped the Sun

13 The Man with the Burning Hand vs. the Man with the Honeyed Sword

14 A Postscript

Notes

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Populäre Schriften
Genre:	Importe , Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780199781720
ISBN-10:	0199781729
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Law, Timothy Michael
Hersteller:	OUP US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Timothy Michael Law
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.07.2013
Gewicht:	0,357 kg