Septuagint Commentary Series | SCS (13 vols.)
Overview
This multi-volume series fills a significant gap in biblical studies by providing a literary commentary on the Greek text of the Septuagint. The Septuagint is widely recognized as one of the most important interpretations of the Old Testament and one of the most important sources for New Testament study. Whereas there has been much attention and many commentary series devoted to the two testaments, the Septuagint has been virtually neglected as a set of primary texts used by Jewish and Christian religious communities in the Greco-Roman world.
Each volume follows a format well known in Greek-text commentaries, including an introduction to the textual history of the biblical book and consideration of other historical, theological, and related topics. The commentary proper contains the Greek text based upon a single Greek manuscript, a translation of the text, and a section-by-section commentary. This series discusses individual books of the Septuagint in their own right, without extended reference to the Hebrew text.
- Contains a detailed introduction to the text
- Focuses on the Greek text of each book
- Benefits scholars of both New and Old Testament study
The volumes of this new series should be in all research libraries.
—International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 52
- Title: Septuagint Commentary Series
- Editors: Stanley E. Porter, Richard Hess and John Jarick
- Series: Septuagint Commentary Series
- Publisher: Brill
- Volumes: 13
- Pages: 4,256
- Christian Group: Evangelical
- Resource Type: Commentaries
- Topic: Septuagint
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Meshaal
2/25/2017
Alex Cheung
7/22/2015
for much better preview, try google books. They show you dozens of pages which enable you to really sample the book.
Larry Craig
7/22/2015
I could be very interested in this set, even with the price. But the sample pages show almost nothing that everybody already has, the Greek text and an English translation. I have said before that whoever chooses sample pages isn't looking to see what pages they actually selected. They often give no idea of what the book is about, like when you have a commentary and only have sample pages of the introduction.
