Editing the Septuagint: The Unfinished Task
Aejmelaeus, Anneli / Gentry, Peter J. / Albrecht, Felix / Feder, Frank / Torijano, Pablo / Trebolle, Julio / Hiebert, Robert / Meade, John / Kantor, Benjamin / Olariu, Daniel / Huotari, Paavo / Albrecht, Felix / Feder, Frank / Aejmelaeus, Anneli / Albrecht, Felix / Troyer, Kristin De / Kraus, Wolfgang / Segal, Michael
The Greek Old Testament, commonly known as Septuagint, has its origins in Ptolemaic Egypt. Egypt developed into a strongly bilingual country, and in the fourth century CE, when Christianity was on firmer ground in Egypt, the Septuagint was translated into Coptic. The intertwined and prolific relation between the Greek and the Coptic Old Testament is now aptly reflected also in the joint ventures of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanit...