Please join us today at 2:30pm in Christoph Keller Library room 101 or via zoom for the launch party of GTS New Testament professor, Dr. Doug Mohrmann's new book, Deuteronomion.

The book, entitled Deuteronomion, is published by Brill Academic Publishers and contributes to a commentary series on the Greek Old Testament or, as it is commonly called, the Septuagint. It is fairly well known that the Hebrew Torah, including Deuteronomy, was translated in Egypt around 280-270 BCE. Other books of the Hebrew Bible were translated eventually over many decades. Less well known is that most of the quotations of the Old Testament within the New Testament may be traced directly to the Greek rather than to the Hebrew. It is not far fetched to say the Greek Bible was the main scripture of the Apostolic and early Patristic Church. This is to say that when Deuteronomy was cited in the New Testament, more often than not, it came from the Greek scriptures. The Greek Orthodox Church remains reliant upon it until today.

 Historically the study of the Septuagint has been conducted by scholars as an aid to their studies of the Hebrew Bible. This series of commentaries, however, takes a very different tact. The contributors were to choose one ancient manuscript and then to expound on it as a sacred text in its own right, not through as a means to another end. This work is an exploration of reading the Greek manuscript as scripture in the hands of Jews and Christians, especially around the time of Jesus.

Dr. Mohrmann will be giving a short lecture and taking questions.

A hard copy is available in the library and digital copies are available online.

Please contact kyates@gts.edu for the zoom link.

The Very Rev. Ian S. Markham, Ph.D.
The Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and the President of The General Theological Seminary