Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?

Autores
Gienini, Olga A.
Año de publicación
2022
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
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Fil: Gienini, Olga A. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente; Argentina
During the Hellenistic period, the Egyptian Jewish communities were forced to venerate the Ptolemaic rulers as gods with the penalty of martyrdom to those who publicly refused to accept the king as god during the enactment of the imperial cult. It is so narrated in the Second Book of Maccabees where a whole family is tortured and condemned to a cruel death because they want to keep the covenant commitments. In the climax of the story (2 Macc 7:6) a short prayer rises from the lips of one of the martyrs trusting in their future resurrection. The prayer is a quotation of Deut 32:36a, a brief chorus motif that is also repeated in Ps 134:14 LXX) and is the only biblical quotation in the whole book. The Greek version of the chorus adopts a special vocabulary using a passive form of verb παρακαλέω with divine subject even when other lexical options were available. And even more astonishing is that the same translation is kept in other passages as well (Judg 2:18 and 2 Sam 24:16 // 1 Chr 21:15). This option of the Greek writers would probably sound strange to a Greek audience not familiarized with biblical traditions and it literally translates similar forms of the Hebrew root נחם...
Fuente
Damqatum. The CEHAO newsletter.No.18, 2022
Materia
HELENISMO
JUDIOS
EGIPTO
HISTORIA ANTIGUA
SEPTUAGINTA
HISTORIA POLITICA
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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Repositorio Institucional (UCA)
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina
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spelling Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?Gienini, Olga A.HELENISMOJUDIOSEGIPTOHISTORIA ANTIGUASEPTUAGINTAHISTORIA POLITICAFil: Gienini, Olga A. Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente; ArgentinaDuring the Hellenistic period, the Egyptian Jewish communities were forced to venerate the Ptolemaic rulers as gods with the penalty of martyrdom to those who publicly refused to accept the king as god during the enactment of the imperial cult. It is so narrated in the Second Book of Maccabees where a whole family is tortured and condemned to a cruel death because they want to keep the covenant commitments. In the climax of the story (2 Macc 7:6) a short prayer rises from the lips of one of the martyrs trusting in their future resurrection. The prayer is a quotation of Deut 32:36a, a brief chorus motif that is also repeated in Ps 134:14 LXX) and is the only biblical quotation in the whole book. The Greek version of the chorus adopts a special vocabulary using a passive form of verb παρακαλέω with divine subject even when other lexical options were available. And even more astonishing is that the same translation is kept in other passages as well (Judg 2:18 and 2 Sam 24:16 // 1 Chr 21:15). This option of the Greek writers would probably sound strange to a Greek audience not familiarized with biblical traditions and it literally translates similar forms of the Hebrew root נחם...Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Historia. Centro de Estudios de Historia del Antiguo Oriente2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttps://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/161091852-6594Gienini, O. A. Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint? [en línea]. Damqatum. The CEHAO newsletter. 2022 (18). Disponible en: https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/16109Damqatum. The CEHAO newsletter.No.18, 2022reponame:Repositorio Institucional (UCA)instname:Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentinaenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/2025-07-03T10:59:11Zoai:ucacris:123456789/16109instacron:UCAInstitucionalhttps://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/Universidad privadaNo correspondehttps://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/oaiclaudia_fernandez@uca.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:25852025-07-03 10:59:11.33Repositorio Institucional (UCA) - Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentinafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
title Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
spellingShingle Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
Gienini, Olga A.
HELENISMO
JUDIOS
EGIPTO
HISTORIA ANTIGUA
SEPTUAGINTA
HISTORIA POLITICA
title_short Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
title_full Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
title_fullStr Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
title_full_unstemmed Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
title_sort Did the ptolemaic imperial politics influence the language of the septuagint?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gienini, Olga A.
author Gienini, Olga A.
author_facet Gienini, Olga A.
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JUDIOS
EGIPTO
HISTORIA ANTIGUA
SEPTUAGINTA
HISTORIA POLITICA
topic HELENISMO
JUDIOS
EGIPTO
HISTORIA ANTIGUA
SEPTUAGINTA
HISTORIA POLITICA
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During the Hellenistic period, the Egyptian Jewish communities were forced to venerate the Ptolemaic rulers as gods with the penalty of martyrdom to those who publicly refused to accept the king as god during the enactment of the imperial cult. It is so narrated in the Second Book of Maccabees where a whole family is tortured and condemned to a cruel death because they want to keep the covenant commitments. In the climax of the story (2 Macc 7:6) a short prayer rises from the lips of one of the martyrs trusting in their future resurrection. The prayer is a quotation of Deut 32:36a, a brief chorus motif that is also repeated in Ps 134:14 LXX) and is the only biblical quotation in the whole book. The Greek version of the chorus adopts a special vocabulary using a passive form of verb παρακαλέω with divine subject even when other lexical options were available. And even more astonishing is that the same translation is kept in other passages as well (Judg 2:18 and 2 Sam 24:16 // 1 Chr 21:15). This option of the Greek writers would probably sound strange to a Greek audience not familiarized with biblical traditions and it literally translates similar forms of the Hebrew root נחם...
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