...As is well known, the Eastern Church since its birth has used as Old Testament text basically that of the Septuagint (LXX). This fact however must not lead to the conclusion that she has accepted Septuagint as the sole authority for the text of the Orthodox Old Testament. The reasons that led...

...Starting from the textual diversity of the Bible in the early church, which proves that no Old Testament variant was canonized and that the Septuagint was used alongside the Hebrew text and Greek revisions dependent on the Hebrew text, this chapter analyzes the controversies over the textual...

...Jeremiah is the only prophetic book that provides readers with a direct view of life in Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege and destruction of the city (588–586 bce). It also appears in two forms, the classic Masoretic Hebrew form of the text and the Septuagint Greek version of the text...

... Isocrates Lysias Alcaeus paideia Sappho Siegel Jeff Whitmarsh Tim Septuagint Carthage Rome Sparta anacoluthon Julius Caesar Persia Pindar Thebes tragedy Zeitlin Froma Catullus Hipponax invective Latin Martial Roman Empire education Hadrian Life of Sekoûndos literature Valesio...

... motifs within a narrative of how a Jewish text came to be worthy of the Alexandrian library, our narrator is trying to create a space for the reception of the Septuagint in a Greek context, that is in a context where even Jewish readers were interested in the Greekness (or otherwise) of their own...

... God Psalms in Hebrews Son of God covenant Dead Sea Scrolls Septuagint Alexandrinus Codex circumcision holokautōmata Mosaic Law Sinaiticus Codex Vaticanus Codex Augustine divine speech Acts of the Apostles Biblical Antiquities Pseudo Philo Sabbath Epistle to the Hebrews quotations...

...The Septuagint (LXX) edition of Kings differs significantly from the Masoretic Text. These differences stem from a different Hebrew base text of the LXX (Vorlage). The LXX edition lacks many textual units added later through protomasoretic editing, but it also contains lengthy...

... of Hosea (Greek Septuagint, Aramaic Targum, Syriac Peshitta, and Latin Vulgate) have their own distinctive translation character, their respective Vorlagen seem to have been quite similar to the Hebrew text behind the Masoretic Text (MT). Furthermore, the translators all had a high regard...

...Any study of the Jewish texts that purport to be historical must survive as independent, self-contained narratives in or associated with the manuscripts of the Septuagint. All purport to give an authentic account of some incident in Jewish history, yet are so compounded with elements...

...It has been asserted that the Septuagint was the Bible of the Jewish diaspora during the period after the return of the Jews from exile to the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism. However, the reality is much more complicated. This chapter looks at the role of the Letter of Aristeas...

...Abstract: The Latin Bible (especially the oldest Latin translation, or Vetus Latina) plays a crucial role in the textual criticism of the Septuagint. It is an old and faithful translation from the Septuagint, providing key information for the knowledge of lost stages of the Greek...

... Pentateuch Septuagint Old Latin Exodus Dead Sea Scrolls The manuscripts examined have shown that in late antiquity and the medieval period at least four versions of the tabernacle account were known in Jewish, Samaritan, and Christian communities. They are clearly related to one another and share...

... Rashi Sinai Mount Korah Aaronide priesthood Temple Scroll 1 Samuel 11Q19 11QTa Quick Laura tent of meeting אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד Eleazar and Ithamar 2 Chronicles Temple Second Tabernacle Bezalel Oholiab Old Latin Septuagint artisans women Levites tribal leaders The tabernacle was no different...

... Lectures on the Septuagint (on Daniel). There is, moreover, coverage of his reception of a D. Litt. Degree from the University of Oxford. The bulk of the chapter studies the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the history of scholarship on it that began already with Robert Grosseteste, Charles’s articles...

... shape of the psalms. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, both of which divide the Psalter into five books, indicate that a number of “editions” of psalm collections circulated until quite late in the history of ancient Israel. This article explores the shape and shaping of the Psalter by looking...

...This chapter retraces the origins of the Greek Bible, and explains how the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Torah ultimately defined the (linguistic) form of the entire Greek Old and New Testament. Surveying the most important episodes in the Christian transmission history of the Bible...

...-century Rome. It concentrates on the German convert and noted scholar of Greek manuscripts, Lucas Holstenius, and his efforts to encourage the study of the ancient Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint. These efforts were variously helped and hindered by Holstenius’s patrons and the Roman...

...This article surveys the story told in the Septuagint Book of Judith, its historicity and date, and the characters and structure of the work. It discusses biblical influences on the apocryphal book, the debated issue of the work’s original language, and theories about the author’s identity...

... (MT), the Septuagint (LXX), and the Samaritan Pentateuch (SP) – each with an unbroken chain of transmission to the present day. This article assesses the major text-critical theories of the Hebrew Bible after Qumran. First, it surveys the textual situation at Qumran and the relationships among...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Handbook and its consciously wide-ranging approach. Part I defines and explains the term Septuagint, and describes the development of the study of this significant corpus from the early modern period to the present day. Part II gives an overview...