Master 2024/2025

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: 2 year, 1-3 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

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