Vorstudien zur Septuaginta

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Vorstudien zur Septuaginta (1841), or "Preliminary Studies in the Septuagint," is a significant work by Zacharias Frankel. Frankel, a rabbi and theologian, was a founder of what became Conservative Judaism. In this book, he explored the connection between Talmudic and Septuagintic exegesis. The Septuagint is the earliest known Greek translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew, likely created for the Jewish community in Egypt around the 3rd century BCE. Frankel was a notable 19th-century Jewish scholar who focused on the Septuagint, and his work is considered a classic.12

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Zacharias Frankel
Frankel also published Vorstudien zur Septuaginta (1841; “Preliminary Studies in the Septuagint”), in which he, the only major 19th-century Jewish scholar who wrote on the Septuagint (the first Greek version of the Old Testament), sought to show the necessary connection between Talmudic and Septuagintic exegesis. It is considered…
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Frankel also published Vorstudien zur Septuaginta (1841; “Preliminary Studies in the Septuagint”), in which he, the only major 19th-century Jewish scholar who wrote on the Septuagint (the first Greek version of the Old Testament), sought to show the necessary connection between Talmudic and Septuagintic exegesis. It is considered…
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