LXX Exodus 22,4: between the Alliance Code and Ptolemaic laws
(2022) European Association of Bibical Studies Toulouse 2022 — Location: Toulouse (4.July.2022)
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Recalcati, Camilla 
- Abstract
- In the research field on the Egyptian influences on the LXX, a particular kind of influences should be defined as Hellenistic-Ptolemaic, as they do not derive from the indigenous culture, but from the Greek-speaking Ptolemaic society (see Pfeiffer: 2016). Against this background, the goal of the proposed paper will be to investigate whether the diverging reading of Ex 22,4 in the MT and LXX is to be attributed to a different Vorlage or a “free” interpretation of the LXX translator who was influenced in the translation of this verse by the Ptolemaic law in force at his time. The paper will present a text-critical analysis of the verse in the MT and the LXX thanks to a collection and an evaluation of the divergencies between the two textual witnesses. Particular attention will be given to the possible interpretation of the Hebrew text (Rabinowitz: 1959) – which seems not to be unambiguous – this will be done to better understand which sense the LXX, or its Vorlage, gave to the Hebrew text. Moreover, the paper will draw a parallel between the LXX’s translation of this verse and Ptolemaic laws concerning the property of fields and crops damage to demonstrate that what appears to be a different understanding of the Hebrew text might conceal the translator’s acquittance with the Ptolemaic law (Bickerman: 1956).
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Recalcati, C. (2022). LXX Exodus 22,4: between the Alliance Code and Ptolemaic laws. European Association of Bibical Studies Toulouse 2022, Toulouse. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/105650