By Géza G. Xeravits,József Zsengellér
The quantity publishes papers awarded on the foreign convention at the Deuterocanonical Books (Pápa, Hungary). This convention handled the deuterocanonical additionsof theOld testomony books. As such, this used to be probably the most prolonged discussions of those writings that has ever taken position at a scholarly assembly. the quantity includes articles at the traditions and theology of the additions, and demonstrates their courting with the modern literature of early Judaism.
Several writings of the Hebrew Bible – similar to Esther, Daniel and Jeremiah – have diversified textual kinds within the Greek Bible, and those varieties show amplified fabric in comparison to the Hebrew types. those additions testify to the artistic mirrored image of early Jewish circles at the uncomplicated traditions of those Books and the textual fluidity of the writings in question.
The essays of this quantity discover those additions, their dating to the Hebrew guardian texts, and their effect at the powerful background of the translation of later centuries.
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