A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo's Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, With Latin Text and English Translation (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd. 31.)

Text: English, Latin (translation) Original Language: Latin Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Preface 10 Acknowledgements 14 List of Abbreviations 16 Part One: Text of the LAB 18 Part Two: Translation of the LAB 106 Part Three: Introduction 212 Author and Title 212 Date 216 Provenance 227 Genre 228 Paganism 230 Hebrew and Greek Stages 232 Narrative and Exegetical Techniques 241 Themes 258 The End of LAB 270 Biblical Text and Quotation 271 Transmission 274 Reception and Translation 290 Latinity 295 Part Four: Commentary 298 Bibliography 1234 Index Locorum 1240 Index Rerum 1314 Index Nominum 1319 Index Verborum Latinorum 1321 Index Grammaticus 1325 By Howard Jacobson. I Have Printed D.j. Harrington's Text Of Lab As A Convenience For The User Of My Commentary...i Do Not Necessarily Agree With The Readings In This Text...our Latin Text Is A Translation Of A Greek Translation Of A Hebrew Original...[mine] Seeks To Be A Translation Not Of Our Seriously Defective Latin Text, But Rather Of The (reconstructed) Hebrew Original Of Lab--preface, P. [ix]-x. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [1217]-1221) And Indexes. This book offers a dramatically new translation of Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, a commentary that deals extensively with LAB's place in ancient biblical exegesis, and an introduction that treats the major problems associated with LAB (e.g. date, original language, manuscript tradition, exegetical techniques).