The Septuagint Sessions

The Septuagint Sessions


The Septuagint Sessions #4 – High Style in the Greek Isaiah. On the Language of the Septuagint III

April 22, 2014

This episode is the third in the series, "On the Language of the Septuagint." Today, I discuss John Lee's forthcoming work, based on his 2011-2012 Grinfield Lectures in Oxford, on the higher register of the Greek Isaiah. Previous episodes have discussed the translators' command of Greek mostly in the Pentateuch. Here, we turn to Isaiah, but we also learn that the translator's ability goes far beyond basic Greek, and he sometimes mimics the style of the greatest of Greek writers.