Proverbs: A Commentary based on Paroimiai in Codex Vaticanus

✍ Scribed by Al Wolters

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Series: Septuagint Commentary
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the Proverbs volume in the Septuagint Commentary Series Al Wolters gives a meticulous philological commentary on the text of Proverbs as found in the important fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, together with a careful transcription of the Vaticanus Greek text and a fresh English translation thereof. The focus of the commentary is on the semantic and grammatical aspects of the Greek, relying primarily on general Greek usage rather than on the underlying Hebrew, and drawing on a broad array of lexicographical and grammatical resources, as well as a detailed examination of twelve previous translations of LXX Proverbs. In the process, many new interpretations of the often difficult Greek are proposed.

✦ Table of Contents

Proverbs: A Commentary based on Paroimiai in Codex Vaticanus
‎Contents
‎Introduction
1 Generalities
2 The Present Work
3 The Greek Text
4 Previous Scholarship on LXX Proverbs
5 Resources
6 Observations on the Translation of the Greek Text
7 Main Divisions of the Text
‎Text and Translation
Section 1: “The Proverbs of Solomon” (1:1–9:18d)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Section 2: “Solomonic Sayings” (10:1–22:16)
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Section 3: “The Words of the Wise” (22:17–31:9)
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 30
Chapter 24
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Section 4: “The Unseparated Words of the Wise” (25:1–29:27)
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Section 5: “A Valiant Woman” (31:10–31)
Chapter 31
‎Commentary
‎Bibliography
‎Index of Authors
‎Index of References to Ancient Literature