Esther. by Claudine Cavalier
The excellent French series La Bible d’Alexandrie, covering individual books of the Septuagint, their text, and their reception, has now been joined by the very useful volume of Claudine Cavalier on Esther. The transmission history of Esther outside the Masoretic Text is an interesting and very comp...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 601-603 |
| Review of: | La Bible d'Alexandrie ; 12: Esther (Paris : Éd. du Cerf, 2012) (Salvesen, Alison)
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| Summary: | The excellent French series La Bible d’Alexandrie, covering individual books of the Septuagint, their text, and their reception, has now been joined by the very useful volume of Claudine Cavalier on Esther. The transmission history of Esther outside the Masoretic Text is an interesting and very complex one. The main LXX text contains seven additions that correspond to nothing currently found in MT Esther, though later rabbinic and targumic traditions reflect certain traits of these additions. The additions, conventionally labelled A–F, serve to increase the piety of the original (MT Esther famously does not mention God explicitly at any point, whereas C presents prayers by both Mordechai and Esther), and also enhance the dramatic aspects and psychological tensions of the book. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt182 |