Veltri Giuseppe. Libraries, translations, and 'canonic' texts. The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian traditions

Boston: Brill, 2006. — 278 p. — (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 109).The book deals with the field of decanonization of ancient traditions by the technique of deconstructing their original context; in particular: the process of canonization of the Greek Torah in Jewish-Hellenistic and Christian tradition and its decanonization in Rabbinic literature; the use and abuse of the translation(s) of Aquila in Patristic and Rabbinic literature and the substitution of Aquila by Onkelos in Babylonian academies; the decanonization of the book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic literature. On the basis of his analysis, the author concludes that, if a canon is the ability of a text to produce and authorize commentary deconstructing its original context by generalization, de-canonization is the inverse way of contextualizing a 'canonical' text by reconstructing the supposed original context.Foreword
Introduction: (De)canonization and Deconstruction
Torah as the Unique Gift: The Traditional Pattern and the Tripartite
Canon as Censorship
Deconstruction and Decanonization: A Paradigmatic Model
The Present Study: Several Concrete Examples of Decanonization
Libraries and Canon: Ascent and Decline of the Greek Torah
Jewish-Hellenistic Sources of the Legend: The Greek Torah
Christian Theology: From the Veritas Graeca to the Veritas Hebraica
(De)canonization of Libraries or Between Alexandria, Athens, and Jerusalem
Deconstructing History and Traditions: The Written Torah for
Changed Verses as Midrashic Parenthetic Reference
Deconstructed Elements and Contextual Stories
Hermeneutics and Canon
Deconstructing Translations: The Canonical Substitution Aquila/Onkelos
Translation as Production of Texts: The Sacred Tongue
Targumic Rendering as Mediation of Teaching
The Targumim of Aquila and Onkelos: Canonical Substitution
(De)canonization in the Making: The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira
The Greek Prologue to the Book of Ben Sira
Ben Sira’s Quotations in Rabbinical Sources
Wisdom and Rabbinic Literature: A Struggle for Authority
A Decanonized AuthorDocumentation Style, Transliteration and References
Index of References
Index of Ancient and Medieval Names
Index of Subject