Full title
“When she ended her prayer …”. A Study of the Relationship between the Hebrew and the Greek Texts of the Book of Esther
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Research notes
SHS/not checked/14/11/2019
Reference type
Editor(s)
Nuria Calduch-Benages
Michael W. Duggan
Dalia Marx
Year
2019
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday
Issue / Series Volume
44
Series Title
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Publisher
de Gruyter
Place of Publication
Berlin/Boston
Pages
71-82
Work type
Label
09/12/2019
Abstract
This article proposes that the OG translator of Esther used the rare occurrences of theologically charged vocabulary in the Masoretic text to provide an explicitly religious interpretation of the Esther story. His contributions are so creative that one may view him as an author as well as a translator. Since Esther 4 is the place where a possible religious interpretation could be harvested, the OG translator made this text the basis for his story in which Esther and Mordecai fast and pray to God.