Date
8-29-2025
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Bible Exposition (PhD)
Chair
Jennifer Brown Jones
Keywords
Septuagint, Genesis, Translation, Polysystem Theory
Disciplines
Classical Literature and Philology | Religion
Recommended Citation
Chappell, Mallory Elizabeth, "Cultural Sensitivity in LXX Genesis: An Examination of Cultural Impact on Septuagintal Translation" (2025). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 7386.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/7386
Abstract
In the field of Septuagint studies, the interlinear paradigm has been a prevailing model employed to describe the relationship between the source text and the translated text. This model has, in many instances, led to the unification of the ideas of dependence upon the source text with the idea of subservience to the same. This project demonstrates that the LXX Genesis translator rendered the source text in a culturally sensitive manner rather than creating a subservient text as posited by the interlinear paradigm
