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Replacing מֶלֶך with ἄρχων in the LXX: Self-Censorship or Inner Development of the Jewish Tradition?
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Theological and ideological changes in the LXX in most cases witness to developments that started long before and continued well after. The Greek translation was but one link – though often the most visible link – in the chain of such developments.
The LXX rendering of מֶלֶך as ἄρχων is a link in the chain of “antimonarchic” developments that started with the Hebrew Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic History and continued through centuries, as late as Pirqe Avot.
Yurovitskaya M., Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 2026 Vol. 138 No. 3 P. 392–400
I propose to relate the puzzling rendering of סָבְאָם as Χαναναίους in Hos 4:18a LXX to the only other occurrence of סֹבֶא “strong drink, wine, or beer”, Isa 1:22, where the term is translated in the LXX as οἱ κάπηλοι “retailers”. Given that כְּנַעֲנִי “Canaanite” functioned as a designation for “trader”, I argue that both verses ultimately reflect ...
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Natalia Kolchugina, , in: Referencias culturales: Retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidadIssue 43: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. P. 206–219.
The paper focuses on sports and music entertainment areas of bilateral interpretation in the Russian-Spanish language pair. The research consists of an observational part and an experimental study on communicative strategies and the impact that cultural references have on the quality and the evaluation of the interpreters’ performance. The results proved that interpreters face certain ...
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Kolchugina N., John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024.
Referencias culturales: retos en la traducción de la fraseología y del lenguaje de especialidad aspira a ser una contribución seria a la problemática de la traducción de culturemas. Este volumen colectivo reune a investigadores con lenguas de trabajo distantes o enraizadas en un tronco común (francés-español, inglés-español, chino-español, ruso-español, rumano-francés e italiano-inglés) que, basándose en corpus ...
Added: September 13, 2025
Лескина Э. И., Журнал российского права 2025 Т. 29 № 8 С. 50–65
The evolution of the understanding of freedom of speech occurs, among other things, in connection with the development of information and communication technologies, the ways in which people actually exercise freedom of speech. The development of platforms and social networks, in which big data plays a key role, lead us to a new era of ...
Added: September 4, 2025
Seleznev M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 2 С. 401–410
The crystallization of apocalyptic and eschatological ideas in the Jewish tradition began during the Babylonian captivity and continued during the Second Temple period. In a developed form, Jewish eschatology is presented in the book of Daniel (second century B.C.), in the book of Enoch (last centuries B.C.), in the New Testament, and in numerous Jewish ...
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Yurovitskaya M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 2 С. 651–661
It has long been recognised that the LXX and Targumim share common exegesis of a number of verses and words. In contrast to the hypothesis of a direct influence of the early forms of Targumim on the LXX, I believe that these versions rather reflect a common approach to the interpretation of biblical texts, as ...
Added: June 18, 2025
Seleznev M., Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies (JSCS) 2024 Vol. 57 P. 73–93
In the LXX-Psalter, in about 80% of cases, the choice between past, present, and future/non-indicative (in the present paper we consider future tense and non-indicative moods together) was predetermined by the tenses of the original. As for the remaining 20%, some of these “abnormal” renderings can be explained as inheriting the tense value from the ...
Added: November 13, 2024
Seleznev M., В кн.: Миф, ритуал, литература.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2022. С. 68–83.
Стих Ис 19:18-19 звучит по-разному в масоретском тексте Библии, в Септуагинте и в кумранских рукописях. Согласно кумранским рукописям 1QIsa и 4QIsb (к сожалению, в других кумранских списках Исайи этот стих безнадежно поврежден): «В тот день будет пять городов в земле египетской, говорящих на языке Ханаана и клянущихся Господом Воинств. Один из них будет называться ʽir ...
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Yurovitskaya M., Biblica 2024 Vol. 105 No. 4 P. 494–505
Discussing the variants חבלי־מות in Psa 18,5 and משברי־מות in 2 Sam 22,5 I join Talmon in considering them not transmission errors, but synonymous readings. However, I demonstrate that the equating of these two terms as both denoting “birth pangs” is not attested in the Hebrew Bible but is a later exegetical development. I argue ...
Added: November 8, 2024
Matusova E., Journal for the Study of Judaism 2023 Vol. 54 No. 3 P. 350–388
The article discusses the fragments of Pseudo-Hecataeus’ work “On the Jews” (Josephus, C. Ap. 1.183–205) from a new, literary perspective that highlights the author’s relationship to Hecataeus of Abdera, Clearchus of Soli, and Aristeas, and describes his position within contemporary Jewish culture in the Egyptian diaspora. Pseudo-Hecataeus demonstrates a strong anti-hellenization tendency in the questions which are ...
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Yurovitskaya M., В кн.: Миф, ритуал, литература.: М.: Издательский дом НИУ ВШЭ, 2023. С. 95–110.
Исайя 6 в Септуагинте: перевод и комментарий ...
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Yurovitskaya M., Vetus Testamentum 2024 Vol. 74 No. 3 P. 455–463
It has long been recognized that the syntactically incorrect phrase in the MT of Isa 2:6b (כִּי מָלְאוּ מִקֶּדֶם וְעֹנְנִים כַּפְּלִשְׁתִּים “for they are full from the east and soothsayers like the Philistines”) suffers from a textual error involving the omission of a word. According to the commonly accepted conjecture, a derivative of the root ...
Added: May 4, 2023
Seleznev M., Novum Testamentum 2023 Vol. 65 No. 4 P. 498–516
In the Septuagint, the word “law” (in the singular) always refers to the Law of God. The singular is semantically loaded: the Law is one, just as there is one God and one Temple. This translation strategy is the same for all the books of the Old Greek translation. The appearance of the plural forms ...
Added: April 26, 2023
Seleznev M., Аристей. Aristeas: Вестник классической филологии и античной истории 2023 № 1 С. 15–27
The present paper focuses on the meaning of pl. νόμοι in Jer 31/38:33 and Jer 31:36/38:37. The difference between the Hebrew and the Greek texts witnesses to a re-interpretation of Jer 31/38 in the LXX. Differently from the Hebrew original, the Greek text of Jeremiah speaks here not about the Torah of Moses, but rather ...
Added: February 15, 2023
Seleznev M., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 1: Богословие. Философия. Религиоведение 2023 № 105 С. 11–25
M. Seleznev. “According to our image” or “to be our image”? (Gen 1:26-27)
Gen 1:26-27 is the key text for the biblical concept of human being as the image of God. A detailed analysis of this verse must take into account both the history of the crystallization of the concept in the religion of Ancient Israel, ...
Added: February 7, 2023
Seleznev M., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2016 Т. 20 С. 929–939
Hosea 1:9 is often said to be dependent on Exodus 3:14-15. The article investigates the arguments adduced in favor of this hypothesis, namely the syntax of the Hebrew sentence, the masoretic accentuation, the syntax of the Old Greek translation and finds them less convincing than it is usually thought. ...
Added: February 2, 2023