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How Egyptian is the Greek of Septuagint?: Some Lexical Notes

  • 1. University of Chicago

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This article explores the linguistic background of the Septuagint translation into Greek of the Old Testament, produced in Alexandria in the third century BCE, and thus likely to present some Egyptian traits. The main purpose is to examine the vocabulary of Egyptian origin, i.e., terms adopted by the Greek language. Since this is not an easy task, a number of methodologies of analysis and comparison with other text corpora are also discussed.

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10.1163/15700631-bja10061
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oai:uchicago.tind.io:4967

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Arts & Humanities Division
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Classics