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Textual Criticism Old Testament, Septuagint Studies and LXX Translation Technique

  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (promotor), The Development of Contened-related Criteria in the Characterisation of the Septuagint’s Translation technique. A Text-Critical Study of the Greek Rendering of Hebrew Wordplays (OT 09/001) (01.10.2009-30.09-2010)
    Researcher involved: Valérie Kabergs (pre-doctoral fellow) and Marieke Dhont (pre-doctoral fellow) link
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (promotor), Hans AUSLOOS (co-promotor), Once-Only Hebrew and Unique Greek. The Greek Rendering of Hebrew Legomena as a Significant Indication within the Characterisation of the Septuagint's Translation Technique (FWO) (01.2008-12.2011)
    Researchers involved: dra. Elke VERBEKE, (pre-doctoral fellow), Dhr. David GODECHARLE (part time research fellow) and Marieke Dhont (pre-doctoral fellow) link
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN and Hans AUSLOOS, Handbuch zur Septuaginta (LXX-Deutsch): Herausgeber van Abteilung IV: Theologie.
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (promotor), Two Faces of One Divine Law? A Text- and Redaction-Critical Approach to the so-called Decalogue in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5.
    Researchers involved: Ottilia LUKÁCS (pre-doctoral fellow)
  • Johan LUST, English translation with commentary on the book of Ezechiel
    Katrin HAUSPIE & Antoon TERNIER
    (Preliminary publications: J. Lust, K. Hauspie, A. Ternier, 'Notes to the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text of Ezekiel' in Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses; a first complete version has been used by the LXX-Deutsch-project)
  • Reinhart CEULEMANS, The Cristian Byzantine reception history of the Greek versions of the Old Testament. A study of the general characteristics and a specific approach through the Commentary on Proverbs by Malachias the Monk (critial edition and study) (post-doctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders; FWO-V) (01.10.2009-30.09-2012) link
  • Reinhart CEULEMANS, Dries DE CROM, Pieter VAN PETEGEM, French translation with commentary on the book of Judith
    In collaboration with La Bible d' Alexandrie
  • Hans DEBEL, The many faces of the Pentateuch: comparing the characterisations of the priestly redaction of the Pentateuch and of Jubiliees' Rewriting of Genesis-Exodus. ​link
    Promotor: Bénédicte LEMMELIJN

Textual Criticism and New Testament

  • The projects of Joseph VERHEYDEN concern the study of Old Testament quotations and allusions in the New Testamen and the reception of the Old Testament in the early Church. At the moment, he is involved in a research project with regard to the reception of the Old Testament in the Gospels (in collaboration with B.J.Koet, Tilburg/Utrecht) and he plans a project on the Old Testament and Justin Martyr.
  • The projects of Gilbert VAN BELLE (will be complemented)

Textual Criticism and Qumran Studies

  • The projects of ET are situated in the domain of the Dead Sea Scrolls, from the perspective of Judaism in the Second Temple Period. More specifically speaking, he is interested in the copying of biblical manuscripts in that period and in the question into the way in which 21st century biblical texts and other early Jewish texts should be edited (cf. his contribution “Editing the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Some Problems.”). Moreover, he is involved in the edition of Isaiah and Ezekiel within the project of Biblia Qumranica. Finally, another aspect in his research pertains the different Dead Sea Scrolls and their classification. In this respect, he guides the doctoral research of Arjen Bakker into the relation of the wisdom text 4Qinstruction to the other Dead Sea Scrolls.

 

Realised Projects


 Textual Criticism Old Testament, Septuagint Studies and LXX Translation Technique

  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (promotor), Words of a sceptical sage. A text-critical, thematic and literary-critical study of Qohelet. (FWO) (10.2007-09.2011)
    Researchers involved: drs. Hans DEBEL, Pre-doctoral research fellow FWO-V link
  • Expert symposium: After Qumran: Old and New Editions of Biblical Texts – The Historical Books, Alcalá (ESP), 31 mei – 2 juni 2010 in het kader van project Old and Modern Editions of the Biblical Texts: The Book of Kings (promotoren: J. Trebolle-Barrera, Facultad de Filología, Departamento de Estudios Hebreos y Arameos, Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spanje & H. Ausloos – B. Lemmelijn, Centre of Septuagint Studies and Textual Criticism, KU Leuven), Alcalá ESP. Resulting in: H. AUSLOOS – B. LEMMELIJN – J. TREBOLLE BARRERA (eds.), After Qumran: Old and Modern Editions of the Biblical Texts – The Historical Books (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium), Leuven – Paris – Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2011, forthcoming.
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN, 'Traduire, c'est trahir?' The literary character of Septuagint;translation of Canticles: Hebrew poetry rendered in Greek or Greek poetry? (FWO PDM) (10.2006-09.2009)
  • Hans AUSLOOS (promotor), Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (co-promotor), Canticles (Song of Songs) in Hebrew and Greek. A Comparative Analysis of the Translation Technique of the Septuagint and the So-Called Pre-Hexaplaric Revisions (OT 05/01) (10.2005–09.2009) en (FWO G.0349.06) (01.2006-12.2009)
    Researchers involved: respectively drs. Reinhart CEULEMANS & drs. Dries DE CROM
  • Viering twintigjarig bestaan van het Centrum voor Septuaginta Studies en Tekstkritiek, n.a.v. het emeritaat van prof. dr. Florentino GARCÍA-MARTÍNEZ (12 december 2008), resulting in H. AUSLOOS, B. LEMMELIJN, M. VERVENNE (eds.), Florilegium Lovaniense. Studies in Septuagint and Textual Criticism in Honour of Florentino García-Martínez (BETL, 224), Leuven: Peeters, 2008.
  • Specialists' Symposium on the Septuagint Translation  (4-6 december 2006), resulting in: H. AUSLOOS, J. COOK, F. GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ, B. LEMMELIJN, M. VERVENNE (eds.), Translating a Translation. The Septuagint and Its Modern Translations in the Context of Early Judaism(BETL, 213), Leuven: Peeters, 2008.
  • Florentino GARCÍA MARTÍNEZ (promotor), Marc VERVENNE (co-promotor), Hans AUSLOOS (co-promotor), Bénédicte LEMMELIJN (co-promotor), Textual Studies in Early Judaism – The Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls (South-African promotor: Johann COOK) (BOF BIL/04/43) (01.2005 –12.2006). O.m. resulting in: B. LEMMELIJN, A Plague of Texts? A Text-Critical Study of the So-Called ‘Plagues Narrative’ in Exodus 7,14–11,10 (Oudtestamentische Studiën/Old Testament Studies, 56), Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2009, XII-384p
  • Symposium: Interpreting Translation n.a.v. het emeritaat van prof. dr. Johan LUST (9 december 2005), resulting in: F. GARCÍA-MARTÍNEZ & M. VERVENNE (eds.), Interpreting Translation. Studies on the LXX and Ezekiel in Honour of Johan Lust (BETL, 192), Leuven: Peeters, 2005

Lexicography of the Septuagint

  • Johan LUST, Erik EYNIKEL, Katrin HAUSPIE, Greek English Lexicon of the Septuagint, Stuttgart: Deutsche Buchgesellschaft, 2003
  • Symposium: Septuagint Lexicography and Beyond: Symmachus, Aquila and Theodotion (31 oktober 2003)
  • Johan LUST, Hexapla. Een studie van de 'recentiores' (Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion) met het oog op de ontwikkeling van een Grieks-Engels lexicon.M.m.v.: dr. Sergio SCATOLINI

Ezekiel Studies

  • Katrin HAUSPIE, The Septuagint Version of the Prophet Ezekiel. French Translation and Philological Notes on the Greek of Ezekiel 25–48, and Study of the Commentaries of the Early Church Fathers on Ezekiel 1-48 (FWO PDM) (10.2003–09.2006)
  • Johan LUST (promotor), Biblia Hebraica Quinta. Ezekiel. A Text-Critical Study (OT/01/01) (10.2001-09.2005)
    Researcher involved: dhr. Antoon TERNIER
  • Johan LUST, A Study of the Hebrew Text of the Book of Ezekiel Resulting in a Text-Critical Edition (FWO G.0278.98) (1997–2003)

Old Testament

  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN, ‘Licht’ en ‘duisternis’ in Oud-Israël en zijn Umwelt: van fysische ervaring en duiding naar metaforisch en narratief gebruik in de oudtestamentische literatuur (FWO PDM) (30.01.2003–29.01.2006, administratief verlengd tot 30.09.2006)
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN, De aard van en de relatie tussen de verhaallagen ‘J’ en ‘P’ in Ex 7,14–11,10. De cruciale rol van een ruime invulling van het concept ‘redactie’ in de discussie over het ontstaan en de compositie van Pentateuchteksten (FWO PDM) (01.10.1997–15.10.2002, administratief verlengd tot 29.01.2003
  • Bénédicte LEMMELIJN, Het verhaal van de ‘Plagen in Egypte’ (Ex 7,14–11,10). Een onderzoek naar het ontstaan en de compositie van een Pentateuchtraditie (Pre-doctoral research fellow FWO) (01.10.1993–30.09.1997, promotor Prof. Dr. M. Vervenne)
  • Hans AUSLOOS, The Deuteronomist and the ‘Temple Sermon’ in Jeremiah 7,1–8,3. A Contribution to the Evaluation of the So-Called Deuteronomistic Redaction of the Book of Jeremiah. Part 1: Text-critical Analysis of Jeremiah 7,1–8,3 (FWO PDM) (10.2002–09.2006)
  • Hans AUSLOOS, Israel’s Journey through the Desert According to the Deuteronomistic prologue of Deuteronomy (Deut 1,1–3,29) and Its Relationship of Literary (inter)Dependence with Parallel Traditions in Exodus–Numbers. Part 1: Text-critical Analysis of Numbers 13–14 and Deuteronomy 1,19 46 (FWO KAN 1.5.081.03) (01.2003–12.2005)
  • Hans AUSLOOS, Deuteronomistische elementen in het boek Numeri. Een onderzoek naar het ontstaan en de compositie van Nu 13–14 en zijn relatie met Dt 1,19-46 (FWO PDM) (01.10.2000-30.09.2003)
  • Hans AUSLOOS, Een onderzoek naar de relatie van het boek Exodus met de ‘deuteronomistische canon’ en de impact van deze relatie op het ontstaan en de compositie van de Pentateuch (FWO PDM) (01.10.1997–30.09.2000)
  • Hans AUSLOOS, De literaire ontstaansgeschiedenis van de Pentateuch. Een kritisch onderzoek naar het karakter van de elementen die wijzen op een deuteronomische redactie van de boeken Genesis tot en met Numeri (Pre-doctoral research fellow FWO) (01.10.1993–30.09.1997; Promotor M. Vervenne)
  • Maricel IBITA, For the Lord has a rîb with his people”: A Study of the Poetry of the Covenant Lawsuit or Rîb Metaphor in Micah 6:1-8 (IRO-scholarship) (01.10.2007–30.09.2011; promoter H. Ausloos)