Judith

Name: Judith
ISBN: 9783110323962

Deborah Levine Gera

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It has been over a decade since my friend and colleague, Doron Mendels, first approached me about writing a commentary on the Book of Judith for this series, and I am somewhat surprised to discover that I have actually finished the book. Judith is a challenging work and I have come to the text as a classicist, rather than a biblical or Septuagint scholar. I hope that this perspective has not led me too far astray, but rather allowed me to look at the work with the fresh eyes of an outsider.

My translation, based on the Hanhart text, is meant to be readable, but is also fairly literal, because it seems important to me to preserve the feeling of the Greek original: both its akward, pseudo-biblical tone and its many internal echoes. I have used the term Palestine anachronistically throughout the book, for convenience’s sake, to indicate the area, roughly speaking, of the biblical kingdoms of Israel and Judah where the Israelites of Judith live. I have also used the term to refer to the wider area, including the Galilee and coastal cities, inhabited by Jews during the Second Temple period.

Categorie:

Religion & Spirituality - Judaism

Anno:

2013

Casa editrice:

De Gruyter

Lingua:

english

Pagine:

584

ISBN 10:

3110323966