Current/Forthcoming Research Projects
OXFORD SEMINARS
IN ADVANCED JEWISH STUDIES
Project 7: Greek expanded, Greek transformed
The Vocabulary of the Septuagint and the Cultural World of the Translators
(January to June 2018)
This Oxford Seminar will bring together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to work on the religious and political vocabulary of the Septuagint, combining the expertise of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, where it will be based, with the resources of the Oxford Classics Faculty and the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics. The project will illuminate for biblical scholars the cultural world of those who produced and read the books of the Septuagint, and will illuminate for classical scholars the ways in which Jews of the Greek world adapted to the dominant culture and influenced it in turn.
Project Leaders:
Jan Joosten (Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)
Philomen Probert (Classics and Linguistics, University of Oxford)
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