Hello all, The Psalms GreekStudy group is beginning this week. The group is reading 10 of the most favorite Psalms (using Rahlfs Septuaginta text) over 13...
Clement of Alexandria claims Samaria was conquered in the 15th year of Ahaz (Strom.119 1). It does not seem that he made this calculation himself but he used...
Dear Frank, I don't get the problem, and I don't understand why you're delving in 2 Kings 18. 2 Kings 17:1 says "In the 12th year of Ahaz, Hosea reigned in...
Hello Andrew - First - Ahaz ruled for 16 years. If Hosea came to the throne in his 12th year then Ahaz died in Hosea's 5th year. The attack on Samaria...
Dear Frank, Your own mouth damned you! You're quibbling about two years, when right there it says the siege lasted 3 years. The King of Assyria attacked...
Dear Andrew - Clement says in Stromateis Book I 119 (1) that Samaria fell in the 15th year of Ahaz. I am not trying to argue, I simply want to know if anyone...
Dear Frank, 1) Hosea reigns in the 12th year of Ahaz - 2 Kings 17:1 2) The events of 17:3-4 take place. They consume 3 years. Cf. verse 3: "And (Hosea) gave...
Dear Andrew - we are not working on the same page. You are presenting the case of "how" the calculations were done. I am not. My question is this - why did...
I'm looking for the best commentaries on the Psalms. One that focuses on the the Hebrew text, but also on the genre as a whole. I want to use it as a...
If you want the best, then there is none better than John Chrysostom, who could think in lxx Greek, and who wrote in the 4th century, and who was martyred for...
A modern commentary on LXX Psalms has yet to be written. Commentaries on a few individual Psalms have been written by Albert Pietersma. See his website. I've...
Here is some Church Fathers commentaries avalaible online http://litteralchristianlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/Wisdom+Books%3A+Job-Sirach...
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Further to my previous post I might add that the following two older resources are still valuable for the study of LXX Psalms: Flashar, Martin. “Exegetische...
Thanks to all who have given their input on commentaries. I've been quietly watching the "Best Commentary on the Psalms" emails. I have purchased the...
Does anyone know if there are any updates to the CCAT files for the LXX from http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/religion/biblical/lxxvar/ . I've been going...
If you want something short and to the point, try Michael Knibb, "The Ethiopic Translation of the Psalms" in MSU (Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens)...
Thanks, Here is a WorldCat Library seach link: http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_all&q=The+Ethiopic+Translation+of+the+Psalms Louis ... ...
This is my guess, enough to go to sleep on -- this psalm gives me no rest ... DWMYH means "repose, rest," occasionally or possibly silence. ." BDB attests it...
Dear Louis, What's wrong with that? Taylor's Analytical Lexicon has "verb future active indicative third person singular". Apart fropm the "2" in VF2 that...
Hello all; New to this group James Kirby Could anyone offer help on a word in Gen 25:27. The word is "aplastos". I cannot find any reference to this word in...
Try the Perseus Hopper lexicon http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=aplastos&la=greek (It even cites the Genesis passage). The word comes from alpha...
Attached are 3 jpeg files. The first shows a portion of the Thompson LXX where it says Jacob was "a man of plain manners." The second is from the Apostolic...
... Sorry, I guess we cannot use attachments in this forum. In the Lexical Concordance of the Apostolic Bible Polyglot the word "aplastos" is defined as...
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