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Westfield House

Seminar Series:

Spring 2016

Dr James Aitken

The Septuagint: The rst

Translation of the Bible within
the History of the Book

15 Mar. 2016 at 17:00

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Wine and cheese reception to follow.

There is no fee to attend.

Please RSVP for the seminar by 1 Mar. to

lumley@westfieldhouse.org.uk

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At Westfield House

30 Huntingdon Road

Cambridge CB30HH

01223 354331

www.westfieldhouse.org.uk

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Westfield House

Seminar Series:

Spring 2016

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James Aitken is a lecturer in the University of Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.
He specialises in second temple Judaism and in the Greek and Hebrew
languages, and more recently has focused upon the Septuagint, with particular
attention to its language and to the evidence oered by inscriptions and papyri as
a means of recovering the social history of the text. Recent publications include
No Stone Unturned: Greek Inscriptions and Septuagint Vocabulary (CSHB; Winona
Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014), The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint
(London: T&T Clark, 2015), and The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the
Byzantine Empire (ed. with James Carleton Paget; Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2014).

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Westfield House is the House of

Theological Studies of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of England. It
provides theological education within
the framework of a confessional
Lutheran perspective and oers
resources and continuing education
that further an understanding of that
perspective.