Master
2023/2024
Mentor’s Seminar Septuagint and Hellenistic Judaism in cross-cultural perspective
Type:
Compulsory course (Classical and Modern Orient: Languages, Cultures, Religions)
Area of studies:
Asian and African Studies
Delivered by:
Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
Where:
Faculty of Humanities
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Mikhail Seleznev
Master’s programme:
Классический и современный Восток: языки, культуры, религии
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
30
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The study of the theology and exegesis of the LXX is an important moment in the history of Judaism and of the Hebrew Bible. The influence of Hellenistic thought on the LXX, i.e. the degree of Hellenisation that the Hebrew Bible underwent in being translated into Greek as a concrete expression of a more complex phenomenon, which is the Hellenisation of the whole Middle East after the conquests by Alexander