The Septuagint and Oral Translation
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Speaking of oral translation has not been popular in Septuagint research lately. The history of research knows one such theory, developed about a century ago by Paul Kahle, maintaining that there was no one written translation in the beginning but several different oral translations that were written down and eventually unified in a process comparable to the development of the Targums. This theory has been refuted, once and for all, a long time ago. Everything in the textual history of the Septuagint speaks for an Urtext, one translation text behind all the various developments in the textual history. But what was there before this Urtext? Several puzzles around the Septuagint find a natural solution, if an origin in oral translation is presupposed for the Torah or at least parts of it. The only source of arguments for a theory of this kind is the translation itself.
Source: SBL Press eBooks
Author: Anneli Aejmelaeus
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2965802923