Reading the Sealed Book

In Reading the Sealed Book , J. Ross Wagner contends that the practice of translation is theological activity. Translated texts are laced with interpretive intricacies and enact hermeneutical assumptions. By focusing on the Septuagint translation of Isaiah's text into Greek, Wagner highlights the c [...]
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In Reading the Sealed Book , J. Ross Wagner contends that the practice of translation is theological activity. Translated texts are laced with interpretive intricacies and enact hermeneutical assumptions. By focusing on the Septuagint translation of Isaiah's text into Greek, Wagner highlights the creative exercise of translation. His model couples patient investigation of a translation with careful attention to its rhetorical nature. Wagner analyzes Isaiah's opening vision as both translation and text, clarifying its language, appropriating its character, and contextualizing its message. Reading the Sealed Book demonstrates how such translations continue to serve as distinctive contributions to theology and the formation of Jewish identity in the Hellenistic diaspora.