Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Johannes Hellberg <j.hellberg AT forsfak.been.o.se>]

Let me recommend a recent dissertation arguing that the Greek within the
context of the Synagogue, including, LXX, Pseudepigrapha, the letter of
Aristeas, Josephus etc. has a semitic influenced word order, derived from
the LXX translation of the Pentateuch. The title is:

Walser, Georg, The Greek of the Ancient Synagogue. An Investigation of the
Greek of the Septuagint, Pesudepigrapha and the New Testament. (Studia
Graeca et Latina Lundensia 8), Almqvist & Wiksell International
Stockholm/Sweden. ISBN: 91-22-01928-6.

Johannes


01-11-12 21:56, skrev Lisbeth S. Fried på lizfried AT umich.edu följande:

> 
>> 
>>> word order was one of the indeces of a Semitic vorlage.
>> 
>> Liz,
>> 
>> Yes and no.
>> 
>> Have you ever heard a '50's vintage fundamentalist preacher give a public
>> prayer? You would thing the guy had grown up talking to Shakespeare.
>> 
>> Some Jewish authors of Greek texts in the Hellenistic period grew up using
>> the LXX as their bible.  The syntax of the Pentateuch (LXX) would have no
>> doubt permeated their writing style.
>> 
>> For this and other reasons, I don't think word order is a
>> reliable criteria
>> for identifying "translation Greek."
> 
> Yes, and that's what I'm saying. The LXX exhibits Semitic word order.
> It has seeped into the NT.
> What was interesting in the LXX book of Esther is that by using the
> method developed by Raymond Martin, and applied by Fox, it could be
> statistically and reliably determined that the Additions to the Greek
> Esther were not translations of a Semitic original.
> 
> Liz
>> 
>> greetings,
>> 
>> Clay
>> 
>> --
>> Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
>> Three Tree Point
>> P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
>> 
> 
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