Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1917)
Autore di The Gospel According to St. Mark: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes and Indices
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Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917) was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge for twenty-five years. Swete is well-known and respected for the extensive range of his biblical and patristic studies and for this careful and exact scholarship.
Opere di Henry Barclay Swete
The Gospel According to St. Mark: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes and Indices (1898) 158 copie
The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Apparatus for Alternate Texts) (2010) 24 copie
The Appearances of Our Lord After the Passion: A Study in the Earliest Christian Tradition (1912) 9 copie
The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. 3: Hosea-4 Maccabees, Psalms of Solomon, Enoch, the Odes… (1905) 8 copie
On the Early History of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, with Especial Reference to the Controversies of the Fourth… (2010) 3 copie
Essays on Some Biblical Questions of the Day / by Members of the University of Cambridge ; Edited by Henry Barclay… (1909) 2 copie
On the History of the Doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit: From the Apostolic Age to the Death of Charlemagne (2004) 2 copie
Selections from the Septuagint 1 copia
Commentary on Mark 1 copia
The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint 2 Part Set (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion) (Volume 2) (2010) 1 copia
The Psalms in Greek: According to the Septuagint, With the Canticles (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1835-03-14
- Data di morte
- 1917-05-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Redland, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Istruzione
- University of Cambridge
- Attività lavorative
- Anglican priest
- Organizzazioni
- University of Cambridge
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- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 118
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- 1
It needs to be replaced because the first edition is more than a century old, and even the revised edition is up to the century mark and is not by the original author. The information it contains is dreadfully out of date.
And yet... there really isn't anything to replace it. The Septuagint -- the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible -- is the Old Testament of the Orthodox Church. Even for the other Christian churches, it has great importance, because it is the only real "control" on the Hebrew Bible -- the only other ancient tradition of Hebrew books, allowing us to correct any corruptions and corrections made by the early Jewish scribes. Thus any serious student of the Hebrew Bible needs to know and understand the Septuagint.
Which obviously means that we need scholars who know and understand the Septuagint. Which means that they need textbooks. And -- there aren't any. Not really. Not good enough. For many aspects of the topic, such as a discussion of the manuscripts, this is still the best there is.
In a perfect world, Swete would have been replaced by now. Since the world is imperfect -- you still need it.… (altro)