The Septuagint

 

Septuagint Studies in General

Septuagint Greek Compared to NT Greek, Lee Roy Martin (7/8/97)

Septuagint and Old Greek Studies. Joel D. Lalvesmaki & James Miller.This is the site for the Septuagint and Old Greek discussion list.

LXX: Septuagint and Old Greek Studies Archive.

The Septuagint: Theological and Academic Resources for the Study of the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions. This is one of the best all around sources.

R. Grant Jones. Notes on The Septuagint.

Sarah Lind. Resources for LXX Study.

Computer-Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies. (CATSS) at the University of Pennsylvania.

International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS).

Parallel Aligned Hebrew and Greek Jewish Scriptures (CATSS).

Commentary on the Septuagint (IOSCS) Forthcoming major project, to comment on the entire Septuagint.

An Historical Account of the Septuagint Version. Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807-1862).

Some Notes on the Apostles' Usage of the Septuagint.

St. Pachomius Library. Septuagint, or Version of the Seventy, and other Greek versions of the Old Testament.

The Septuagint: God's Blessing on Translation (Debra E. Anderson).

Henry Barclay Swete: Septuagint Studies:

H. B. Swete (1835-1917) An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. At the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

The Old Testament in Greek. Two Lectures given at the Cambridge Local Lectures Summer Meeting, July 1908:

1. Origin, Contents, and Language of the Septuagint; other Greek versions of the Old Testament, in: The Interpreter 5 (1908/09) 17-33.

2. The Greek Old Testament in the Christian Church, in: The Interpreter 5 (1908/09) 129-146.

Review of Nestle's Septuagint Studies, in: The Expository Times 11 (1899) 38-39.

Graetz's Theory of the LXX, in: The Expository Times 2 (1891) 209.

 

Grammars & Lexicons for Septuagint Studies

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare & St. George Stock. Grammar of Septuagint Greek. This file has been scanned and run through a English OCR so that the Greek is garbled. It seem to come from the 1995 Hendrickson reprint without the copyrighted Indexes and Vocabularies.

Smyth's (classical) Greek Grammar (Note: this is the first edition of Smyth [1920], not the current edition [1956], and the section numbers cited are different; it does have the full text online; part of Persus Project.)

Overview of Greek Grammar, keyed to Smyth's classical Greek grammar; part of Persus Project (Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox)

Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek [Oxford Mirror] [Berlin Mirror]. In one of the most remarkable and useful developments on the internet, the Perseus Site has made available a resource that is in many ways better than the printed version, for here one can often access the web-versions of the texts to which one is referred by the Lexicon.

 

Septuagint Texts

Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917) Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. I: Genesis-IV Kings; Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. II: I Chronicles-Tobit; Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Vol. III: Hosea-4 Maccabees; An Introduction to the Old Testament Greek.

Brooke, MacLean, & Thacheray: The Old Testament in Greek (Cambridge LXX: Genesis – Ruth). At TC* Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism – Ebind Index.

 

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