Jennifer Dines provides a survey of current scholarship on the Greek Bible - the Septuagint. She outlines its origins in the third to first centuries BCE , going on to trace its subsequent history to the fifth century CE. The Septuagint's relationship with the standard Hebrew text and … more
The Septuagint Version of the Old Testament Translated into English contains Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton’s translation. The translation uses the Codex Vaticanus as its base text. Commonly known as the Brenton LXX, it has been a standard translation, and one of the most frequently … more
Conybeare and Stock’s Grammar of Septuagint Greek is divided into two sections. The first presents a short grammar, focusing particularly on the features that distinguish the Greek of the Septuagint from both Classical Greek or New Testament Greek. The second section is a selection … more
The Septuagint (commonly abbreviated "LXX") is a Greek translation of the Old Testament. Today, more than 2,000 years after the Septuagint was completed, we can see how Hebrew terms and concepts were translated into Greek for use by Hellenistic Jews. This provides insight to students … more
The Göttingen Septuagint represents the largest Septuagint project ever undertaken. Published between 1931 and 2006, the Göttingen Septuagint contains the most authoritative critical apparatus of the Greek Old Testament ever assembled. Combining textual evidence from countless … more
Richard R. Ottley provides a thorough history of the Septuagint. Chapters cover the different versions and their manuscripts, survey the contents and organization of the books, discuss their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, and demonstrate the importance of the LXX in later … more
The Brill Septuagint Studies Collection (2 Vols.) combines the premier introductory text on the Septuagint with thirty-eight collected essays of Emanuel Tov, one of the Septuagint's leading scholars. Together, they function to provide an essential starting point for studying … more
This substantial concordance of Septuagint words is a well-known tool for referencing Septuagint vocabulary and word use. Use it to expand your dictionary, lexicon, or concordance, and get the most out of your Greek research, philology, or word studies. With Logos Bible Software, … more
Takamitsu Muraoka has compiled a user-friendly Hebrew/Aramaic index to the Septuagint. He critically examines all of the Hebrew-Greek and Aramaic-Greek equivalences assigned by the Hatch-Redpath Concordance to the Septuagint, particularly focusing on lexicographical and … more
The Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the Septuagint is a syntactic analysis of the entire Greek text of the Septuagint using the Swete's The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint. Created using the same framework as the Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament, the database … more
The Septuagint (LXX), a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, is a valuable complement to the study of the Hebrew Bible. Providing an early witness to the text of the Hebrew Bible, the LXX can also be particularly helpful with understanding difficult Hebrew texts, and is the … more
The Septuagint is often misunderstood or completely ignored in New Testament studies. In The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research, R. Timothy McLay makes a sustained argument for the influence of the Greek Jewish Scriptures on the New Testament and offers basic principles … more
This volume contains thirty-eight studies devoted to the Septuagint written by an internationally recognized expert on that version and its relation to the Hebrew Bible. The author's experience on these topics is based on more than three decades of work within the Hebrew University … more
The present work is aimed at a large group of scholars in many disciplines: students and specialists in the Old Testament and more specifically in the Septuagint, the New Testament, Intertestamental Literature, Patristics, Jewish Hellenism, and Greek linguistics. Its limited scope and … more
Henry Barclay Swete’s Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint is an authoritative edition of the Greek text of the Old Testament. Work first began in 1875 at the initiative of F. H. A. Scrivener, and continued under the editorship and direction of Swete. The first … more
