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Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies

Greek Expanded, Greek Transformed. The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators.

Convenors: Professor Jan Joosten and Professor Teresa Morgan

The seminars will be held at the Clarendon Institute on Wednesdays from 10:30am – 12 noon, unless otherwise stated

Type: Seminar Series
Timing: Wednesdays from 10:30-12:00 noon
Organising department: Faculty of Theology and Religion

Tuesday 24 April 2018

17:00 - Semantic differentiation between Classical and Hebraizing usage in the LXX
Professor Mikhail Seleznev (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Wednesday 2 May 2018

10:30 - The Gods of the Others in the LXX: lexical analysis and historico-religious implications
Dr Anna Angelini (University of Lausanne)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

14:15 - The Good, the Indifferent, and the Literal or Unintelligent: A pattern involving vocabulary choices in three books of the Septuagint
Professor Trevor Evans (Maquarie University )

Tuesday 15 May 2018

17:00 - Translation into Greek in Sirach
Professor Benjamin Wright (Lehigh University)

Tuesday 22 May 2018

14:15 - Signs of cultural adaptation from the Septuagint vocabulary.
Dr Romina Vergari (University of Florence )

Wednesday 30 May 2018

10:30 - A jealous God and an envious devil? The vocabulary of envy and jealousy in the LXX, and its theological implications
Dr Anthony Ellis (Universität Bern )

Wednesday 6 June 2018

10:30 - The historical context of LXX vocabulary: reflections from a Septuagint project
James Aitken (University of Cambridge), Sarah Pearce (Southampton), Tessa Rajak (Reading)

Tuesday 12 June 2018

17:00 - Greek magical terminology in the Septuagint
Maria Yurovitskaya (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow )

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Editor: Andreia Gomes Da Costa Leite