THE BIBLE AND THE GREEKS
Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing of Dodd's epochal monograph with the very scarce DJ. Errata slip tipped in to TOC, . xv, 264pp. 8vo, sewn binding in burgundy finished cloth, gilt spine lettering. Moderate foxing mostly to the fore edge and offsetting to the gutter of the first four leaves, otherwise a crisp and sharp copy with very tight, square binding and no markings. Owner's name to FFEP d. 1942 and subsequent inscription d. 1968. DJ edges worn with some loss and creasing at spine ends, spine sunned. 'This is an extremely good book. Professor Dodd considersfirst the religious vocabulary of Hellenistic Judaism, secondlyHellenistic Judaism and the Hermetica. In the first part heanalyzes the names of God and the terms used for the law,righteousness, mercy, truth, sin, and atonement in the HebrewBible, the ways in which the Septuagint found equivalents inGreek, and the relations of the New Testament to this doublebackground. Throughout he shows in a vivid manner the farreaching changes involved in translation from Hebrew intoGreek ...The result is a great gain for our understanding of Paul and of the Fourth Gospel and of other N. T.writers. We read the N. T. as a Greek book and we are liable to forget how different are the connotations of *nomos* from thoseof the corresponding Hebrew terms.' (A. D. Nock, review in The American Journal of Philology, 1936). VERY GOOD / Good. Item #514284
ISBN: B0007IWUNU
Price: $200.00