HTLS: Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint

31/08/2021

Part of our team presented some insights into the upcoming second volume of the lexicon today at European Academy of Religion Annual conference in Münster. Many thanks to all the participants for the inspiring discussion!

31/08/2020

We are delighted to announce that the first volume of HTLS is finally out!
Now available on the web site of Mohr Siebeck Publisher!

Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, 978-3-16-150747-2, Volume I: Alpha – Gamma Edited by Eberhard Bons

04/07/2019

Part of our team just presented at the SBL International Meeting 2019 in Rome. We are happy for the good feedback and look forward to the forthcoming first volume in November!

27/06/2019

We have come to the last day of our Annual International Workshop of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint at Christ Church College in Oxford.
The first volume is nearly ready and we would like to thank all the participants and supporters for the precious collaboration. Hard work and lots of fun!

18/06/2019

Eberhard Bons has studied theology, philosophy and Romance languages at the universities of Mainz, Tübingen, Rome (Gregorian University) and Frankfurt (Faculty of Sankt Georgen).

In 1988 he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Mainz.

In 1993, he also obtained a doctoral degree in theology from the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Georgen, Francfort.

He received his habilitation in 2000 from the University of Strasbourg (France) where he teaches as a Professor of Old Testament Exegesis.

Major publications:

Psalm 31 � Rettung als Paradigma. Eine leserorientierte Analyse, Francfort: Knecht Verlag, 1994;

Das Buch Hosea, Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, 1996;

Les Douze Prophètes, vol. 1: Osée, Paris: Cerf, 2002 (in collaboration with J. Joosten, St. Kessler, and Ph. Le Moigne).

Eberhard Bons is member of the editorial board of Septuaginta Deutsch (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2009�2011) and editor of several books on Septuagint studies, Old Testament prophetism and biblical monotheism, e.g. Der eine Gott und die fremden Kulte. Exklusive und inklusive Tendenzen in den biblischen Gottesvorstellungen, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2009; Septuagint Vocabulary: Pre-History, Usage, Reception, Atlanta, Ga., 2011 (in collaboration with Jan Joosten); Le monothéisme biblique: évolution, contextes et perspectives, Paris: Cerf, 2011 (in collaboration with Th. Legrand).

17/06/2019

The dictionary will be published in English, by the Mohr-Siebeck publishing house in Tübingen.
The first volume of 500 pages will be released in November 2019.