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tament scholar that god has given his church 14 20 indeed our infallible hero has also been recorded clearly speaking of my idol lightfoot and has even asserted in print that he reserves the term perfect for him alone 2 thus we can readily see the deep and meaningful connection between the infallibility of moisés silva and the perfections of joseph barber lightfoot and of course lightfoot did not flourish on his own but together with his two great cambridge friends brooke foss westcott and fenton john anthony hort now our infallible hero has called himself an unrepentant and unshaken hortian in print at least once going on to note that hort s achievement was in collaboration with westcott and less directly lightfoot 3 on this account then it is only natural that we should take all three together with respect to silva even as lightfoot takes peter james and john together with respect to st paul as the same silvanic class recording mentioned above rightly notes these fellows were part of a trio not a musical band but something much more exciting than that 14 00 nor is this all the lightfoot silva perfection infallibility connection is drawn explicitly in the silvanic corpus itself in the introduction to a 1983 lecture the main body of which was later published as betz and bruce on galatians wtj 45 1983 371 85 our infallible hero has this to say in the year 1857 the journal for classical and sacred philology carried an article reviewing several recent works on the epistles of paul this rather lengthy review article it was about 40 pages long immediately established its author who was then only 27 years old as a force to be reckoned with in biblical scholarship within a decade this young scholar had published a commentary on the epistle to the galatians destined to become one of the most influential works of the century and it is remarkable that even today about 126 years later this work is widely regarded not only as an indispensable tool for the understanding of the epistle to the galatians in particular but also as perhaps the finest model we have for the proper exegesis of the pauline writings generally now this young man s name was of course joseph barber lightfoot and here i stand before you today in order to review two recent works on galatians this lecture is supposed to evolve into a review article and to be published in the westminster journal this fall if the editor accepts it 4 but the historical significance of the lecture you see is that i am hereby announcing my candidacy to become the lightfoot of our generation the lightfoot of our generation a new lightfoot a better and greater lightfoot in a word the one to whose infallibility the perfections of lightfoot point hear ye him this and many other points will be treated exhaustively in moisés and the three though i regret already that the massive length of this monograph expected to be much longer than even christoph uehlinger s weltreich und eine rede will surely mean that a number of important silvanic teachings cannot be included take for instance this enormously significant bit derived from his recorded lectures our infallible hero s calculations appear to indicate that any time you may add to your life by exercising only equals the amount of time you wasted exercising in the first place this speaks to a fundamental principle of the universe that as a theologian friend of no small consequence told me just a few days ago it s all about quality of life rather than quantity of life be that as it may i hope to write multiple scientific studies on these precious moisifical obiter dicta during the decade after this one which would be my fifth so i will undoubtedly end up eating a salad and running a lap or two just to make it there finally and because every jubilee requires an anthem i am enormously pleased to present to you some lyrics i have written set to a peppy tune composed by alfred judson for a hymn by haldor lillenas and to our infallible hero the teacher of us all the great moisés silva on his 75th birthday many years with gratitude anthem for the 2020 moisifical jubilee once i was bound by spectres of cremer theologizing greek words in vain but i was freed from voodoo linguistics when silva broke my fetters in twain chorus glorious silva wonderful silva no further pseudo linguistic tripe semantic fields and lexical research now and forever delight of mine taking account of modern linguistics careful with kittel consider barr working to track semantic displacement linguistic freedom joy without par freedom from fee and arnold s objections from caragounis and his complaints freedom in our infallible hero he who has rent our fetters in twain endnotes 1 this material comes from the westminster theological seminary course nt 111 general introduction to the new testament recorded in 26 parts and available at the westminster archive media service the linked lecture is part 16 of 26 2 moisés silva response in david alan black ed rethinking new testament textual criticism grand rapids mi baker academic 2002 144 3 ibid 142 regarding the preference now reflected in 17th edition of the chicago manual of style 14 34 you can pry my ibid from my cold dead hands 4 our infallible hero served as editor of the westminster theological journal from 1982 to 1991 similarly it bears noting that j b lightfoot edited the journal of classical and sacred philology for its entire run 1854 9 let the reader understand posted in uncategorized 1 comment international septuagint day 2019 posted on february 8 2019 by fr esteban vázquez i am pleased that the first post in this blog for the current year and indeed the first post in exactly 16 months should appear in celebration of the 13th annual international septuagint day a commemoration vested with enormous significance in the bouncing into graceland festal cycle second only to international moisés silva day september 4 and just ahead of international translation day september 30 the real feast of st jerome it is much to be regretted however that in spite of its paramount importance today s festival was last mentioned here in 2009 fully a decade ago with no small amount of remorse then yet equally resolved to amend such a grievous misstep i turn to the solemnities at hand of course you my gentle snowflakes will recall that as i noted back in 2008 emperor st justinian s novella 146 which legislates the use of the greek text of the seventy interpreters in greek speaking synagogues was issued on february 8 a d 553 thus as the great bob kraft has said the international organization for septuagint and cognate studies ioscs chose this day for the annual commemoration as reflecting the one date we know of from late antiquity on which lxx og aquila received special attention this is not however the whole story as you all know it is the chief burden of bouncing into graceland to spread the knowledge of the infallibility of moisés silva throughout the land and our infallible hero is an able septuagintalist and an ioscs member of long standing it should come as no surprise then that as a sedulous researcher attuned to all matters silvanic i should in time happen upon a genuine moisifical connection to the establishment of our high festival and so i should like to direct your attention to the minutes of the ioscs general business meeting held in washington d c on november 20 2006 which under item 7a other business from the floor states a motion to establish february 8 annually as international septuagint day to promote the discipline on our various campuses and communities was moved by karen jobes seconded by james aitkin sic and carried bioscs 40 2007 143 notice here who made the motion the divine karen jobes gerald f hawthorne professor emerita of new testament greek and exegesis at wheaton college who is herself a septuagintalist of note and served at that time as ioscs secretary but how do you ask did professor jobes become interested in lxx studies in the first place she explains the inspiration was born during my doctoral studies at westminster theological seminary in a course entitled the greek old testament taught by moisés silva i had previously heard professor silva comment that this course was the hardest one offered at the seminary being a woman who enjoys a reasonable challenge and having become enamored with biblical greek i registered for the course with enthusiasm very quickly i began to appreciate both the technical and conceptual complexities of septuagint studies so many of my naive assumptions about texts manuscripts and the scriptures i hold dear were quickly shattered i began to see a more profound mysterious and wonderful picture that captured my scholarly imagination i ve been hooked on septuagint studies ever since karen h jobes and moisés silva invitation to the septuagint 2nd ed grand rapids mi baker academic 2015 xiii this led eventually to her dissertation on the alpha text of esther its character and relationship to the masoretic text atlanta ga scholars press 1996 under the direction of our infallible hero to her sustained attention to the lxx in her distinguished teaching and scholarship and indeed to the above documented motion at the ioscs general business meeting on november 20 2006 which established our honored festival day and so it all harks back to one scholar s undoubtedly often thankless service to the discipline which captivated the imagination of a student who became a brilliant scholar in her own right and who has since led several of her own students down the same path may their tribe increase in addition to her above mentioned works on the lxx professor jobes has also produced the introduction and translation of esther for the new english translation of the septuagint the translation of esther in the codex sinaiticus for the british library and in collaboration with several of her students discovering the septuagint a guided reader grand rapids mi kregel academic 2016 she has also published a number of articles on septuagintal topics all of which are available for download on her website so with that a happy international septuagint day 2019 to one and all for other posts in honor of this universal commemoration see our friend mike aubrey s post over at koine greek which highlights the recently published 2 vol septuaginta a reader s edition peabody ma hendrickson 2018 and runs through some linguistic data on ἰσχύ inf in the lxx and william ross post over at septuaginta c which features a wonderful interview with septuagintalist kristin de troyer incidentally william ross has been picking up the slack for our high festival for the past several years all the while completing his doctorate on the lxx at cambridge and co editing the mammoth reader volumes to which we have just referred you know no big deal and last but certainly not least marieke dhont has a fascinating guest post over at the logos academic blog on the digitization of lxx manuscripts at the vatican apostolic library posted in uncategorized 1 comment sundays with silva on translation and long apostolic sentences posted on october 8 2017 by fr esteban vázquez in the most recent installment of mondays with moisés we read our infallible hero state in what at first blush might seem like a throwaway comment that since the message communicates more clearly in translations of modern literature which sound as though they had originally been written in english with due allowance for the original context one can argue that they are more accurate than literal renderings would be yet the careful reader will immediately note that his use of one can argue here practically demands some sort of qualification for this statement one such qualification it seems to me relates to the use of so called insider language as i suggested in my recent rejoinder to the much missed lingamish another as i argued many years ago in another such discussion is the notion that a literarily sensitive translation will not be complicated where the original is not and by the same token will not be simpler than the original do such added qualifications find any support at all in the silvanic canon however fortunately for us the material from the youngblood festschrift reworks with somewhat different emphases similar material from our infallible hero s earlier publication god language and scripture in addition to beautifully nuancing and rounding out an admittedly complex discussion our text today affords us an excellent illustration of a fundamental principle of moisifical infallibility to wit that moisés silva is his own best interpreter the task of producing a good translation is exceedingly arduous students of the biblical languages do not always have a good appreciation of what is involved they have learned to produce literal translations by consulting the lexicon and so the process seems rather straightforward in fact however a successful translation requires 1 mastery of the source language certainly a much more sophisticated knowledge than one can acquire over a period of four or five years 2 superb interpretive skills and breadth of knowledge so as not to miss the nuances of the original and 3 a very high aptitude for writing in the target language so as to express accurately both the cognitive and the affective elements of the message even when one has all that equipment frustration lurks at every turn if we capture with some precision the propositional content of a statement we may give up the emotional nuances that form part of the total meaning if we have a stroke of genius and come up with a turn of phrase that conveys powerfully the message of the original we may realize that our rendering blurs somewhat its cognitive detail not surprisingly some rabbis used to complain he who translates a verse literally is a liar and he who paraphrases is a blasphemer italians are more concise traduttore traditore translators are traitors we must ever keep in mind that no one translation can possibly convey fully and unambiguously the meaning of the original different translators and even different philosophies of translation contribute to express various features of the original moreover recent advances in linguistics place much emphasis on the context of speech the admirable desire to produce translations that do not sound like translations and are thus clearer and more accessible to the modern reader must be accompanied by the reminder that the biblical stories took place in the middle east rather than the western world in ancient times rather than in the twentieth century to the extent that readable translations indirectly encourage modern readers to forget such a setting to that extent they also fail to capture part of the meaning of the text besides one detects a definite tendency to make modern translations much simpler than the original greek and hebrew if the corinthians had some difficulty understanding paul s greek it is no disgrace when a modern 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