Details for the next seminar, available virtually, are as follows:

Oxford Septuagint Seminar

17 June | 2:00 PM (BST)

“Translating the Word of God: Synagogues and the Septuagint in the Late Second Temple Period”

Prof. William Schniedewind is Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies & Northwest Semitic Languages and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at UCLA.

The Septuagint is usually understood as an Alexandrian translation created for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt. This paper argues that the Greek Bible also reflects the institutional and theological world of Jerusalem, including the rise of synagogues, the public reading of Torah, and the growing understanding of Scripture as the fixed “word of God.” By examining the Letter of Aristeas, Greek-speaking synagogues, and several case studies in Septuagint translation, the lecture explores how translation became part of the transformation of Jewish textual culture in the late Second Temple period.

This paper is drawn from a chapter of Prof. Schniedewind’s forthcoming book.

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Details for the next seminar, available virtually, are as follows for tomorrow:

Oxford Septuagint Seminar

10 June | 2:00PM (BST)

Dr Vladimir Olivero, “The Text of the Septuagint”

This week Dr Vladimir Olivero will be giving an introduction to the text of the Septuagint: manuscripts, editions, textual families. The goal is to equip the audience with the basic tools to understand the textual history of the Septuagint and how to use the main reference works. Particular attention is devoted to the Pentateuch.

Vladimir Olivero is Preceptor in Classical Hebrew at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and at Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University. He holds a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Milan, and MSt in Classical Hebrew Studies and a DPhil in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on Ancient Hebrew linguistics, textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and their daughter versions.

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