The Old Testament In Greek According To The Septuagint Vol 1

Excerpt from The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. 1: Genesis-IV Kings Since the invention of printing four primary editions of the Septuagint have issued from the press - the Complutensian, the Aldine, the Roman, and the Oxford representation of the Alexandrine text. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. 2: I Chronicles-Tobit Of the 209 leaves which have survived the wreck of this great ms. Bible, the first 64 contain fragments of the LXX. Of these 19 belong to Job, 6 to Proverbs, 8 to Ecclesiastes, 7 to the Wisdom of Solomon, 23 to Sirach, whilst of Canticles only one leaf remains. The Old and New Testament portions of the ms. Appear to have been written by different but contemporary hands. This ms., as its title denotes, is a palimpsest. In the twelfth century the original writing throughout the Codex was washed out by a scribe who afterwards wrote over it in a cursive hand a Greek translation of certain homilies and other works of Ephraim, the Syrian deacon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Volume 1 of The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, edited by the Cambridge scholar Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917), was first published in 1887. It contains the first twelve books of the Greek Old Testament: Genesis to 2 Kings. Swete set an important precedent for later editors by using an actual manuscript text as the edition's base. He selected the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, which is still widely considered to contain the earliest and most valuable form of the Septuagint text; many later editors have followed suit. Where Vaticanus was defective the text was supplemented by the fifth-century Alexandrinus. The critical apparatus gives the readings of other important ancient manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Cottonianus Geneseos, Bodleianus Geneseos, and Ambrosianus. The edition's convenient size and ease of use assured its place as one of the most widely used versions of the Septuagint, and it is still consulted today.

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