Tag: head equals honor

Household: The Fictive “rosh to kephale” Exceptions in the Septuagint (Part 1)

Sep 25, 2007

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mwkruse

in Culture, History, Series: Household of God, Sociology, Theology

The Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek from the third through first centuries B.C.E. This translation became known as the Septuagint (LXX). As we saw earlier, in most cases where the Hebrew authors use the word rosh (head) metaphorically, it was not translated as kephale (head) in Greek. Rosh usually indicated "chief" or "ruler" when…