The goal of this dissertation is to describe and analyze as exhaustively as possible the translation technique and exegetical practice of the translator of the Septuagint of Amos. The dissertation is divided into two main parts addressing in order the translation technique and t…
Codex Vaticanus and the Masoretic Text witness to two significantly different texts in 1 Samuel 17–18. Proponents of the MT generally attribute the shorter LXX to the omission of parts of its Vorlage before or during the work of the Septuagint translators. Proponents of LXX B cl…
This dissertation is a text-critical study of the ancient Hebrew and Greek texts of Malachi. Malachi contains 55 verses which are divided into three Hebrew chapters (four chapters in English of the same number of verses). The Hebrew texts consulted are the Masoretic Text B19a (C…
This dissertation builds on and attempts to contribute to the larger stream of research of the past three decades generated by Gerald H. Wilson's seminal work The Editing of the Hebrew Psalter . This stream of research has considered the Psalter in its final form as an intention…