The Word Of The Lxx Translator Egyptian Influences On The Renderings Of Toponyms And Geographical Images In Genesis And Exodus

Recalcati, Camilla
(2023) EABS 14th Graduate Symposium — Location: Jerusalem, Israel (27.March.2023)

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Against the background of the studies on Egyptian Influences on the LXX (Pfeiffer: 2016), the analysis of those terms that reflect the reality in which the translator lived has great relevance. In fact, some LXX-renderings reflect the cultural, social, economic, and geographical environment of the Greek translator (Ausloos: 2012). Amongst those renderings, this paper aims at presenting those of toponyms, and geographical images in the LXX of Genesis and Exodus. Firstly, toponyms will be presented. Their renderings in the LXX of Genesis and Exodus many times conceal an Egyptian influence. In fact, toponyms, and territories that at the time of the LXX translation were under the Ptolemaic sovereignty or with which the Egyptian kingdom had contacts, undergo a peculiar translational process in the LXX (Fernandez-Marcos: 1977). Moreover, in those passages that take place in Egypt, the geographical coordinates illustrated by the HB seem to remain those of Syro-Palestine. This oversight of the Hebrew author who possibly wasn’t familiar with Egypt, did not go unnoticed by the Greek translator, who lived in Egypt (Van der Meer: 2012). In this session of the paper, those passages where the geographical coordinates or realities are “changed” by the translator to better fit within the Egyptian context will be examined. Lastly, the paper will highlight how much the translator(s) of Genesis and Exodus was influenced by the Egyptian-Hellenistic context and how it is reflected in how he renders geographical names and realities which he was well acquainted with.
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Recalcati, C. (2023). The Word Of The Lxx Translator Egyptian Influences On The Renderings Of Toponyms And Geographical Images In Genesis And Exodus. EABS 14th Graduate Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/232479