In response to my particular use of English in my translation of the LXX I wanted to share the following regarding Fr. Patrick O'Grady's translation of the...
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Kalvesmaki
Dec 21, 2009 8:43 pm
Greetings LXXers, I am taking time to update links on my LXX website, and I notice that the several articles by R. Grant Jones have disappeared. If anyone...
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Dale
dale7344
Dec 26, 2009 8:06 am
I located Mr jones excellent site here http://mysite.verizon.net/rgjones3/Septuagint/spindex.htm...
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talmidim@...
Dec 26, 2009 2:30 pm
Thank you so much for this link! I have already shared it with many on my e-mail list.... MB In a message dated 12/26/2009 2:06:26 Central Standard Time, ...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Jan 5, 2010 1:07 am
Hello All: I just received my three-volume set ofTHE OLD TESTAMENT IN GREEK by HENRY BARCLAY SWETE. It is a beautiful set, and has the complete Septuagint. I...
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jlitteral5@...
Jan 5, 2010 1:33 am
Yeah, I got it a couple of years ago, I like it too. The one I got is very old, it was printed in 1895. -- Sincerely, John Litteral jlitteral5@... ...
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Dale Ogilvie
dale7344
Jan 5, 2010 1:56 am
I see that Swete's edition is based mainly on Vaticanus (B), and Alexandrinus (A) where B was lacking. Does anyone know if there is a printed text of A...
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Cindy Smith
cms@...
Jan 5, 2010 2:45 am
Hmm, the only Swete I have is the Apocalypse of Saint John. The notes are great. Yours, -- Cindy Smith cms@... Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni! A Real...
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Suttles, Andrew C. (G...
andrew.c.suttles@...
Jan 5, 2010 7:26 pm
Of all the different editions, which is the ONE you couldn't live without (in other words, which is your desert island Septuagint)? From: lxx@yahoogroups.com...
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JavaJedi2
Jan 5, 2010 11:44 pm
I'm currently reading a book that deals with several citations in Acts and the author surveys views of how the LXX of Amos 9:11-12 came t5o be, given its...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Jan 6, 2010 4:57 am
My Zoe Brotherhood Bible. It has the LXX text approved by the Church of Greece and the NT approved by the Ecumenical Patriarch. This has been my personal bible...
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Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie
dale7344
Jan 6, 2010 4:58 am
Perhaps marked differences are due to the addition of different vowels to the same Hebrew word specified using only consonants? I vaguely remember that the...
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Suttles, Andrew C. (G...
andrew.c.suttles@...
Jan 6, 2010 2:43 pm
I thought you might say that J Thanks, Andrew From: lxx@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lxx@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Papoutsis Sent: Tuesday, January 05,...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Jan 6, 2010 5:50 pm
It is my understanding that there develoved three (3) different versions of the Hebrew Bible, and that the LXX was based off of the Hebrew Bible version that...
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Sigrid Peterson
petersig
Jan 6, 2010 8:22 pm
Yvonne and/or Dale, ... This was my thought. One way to check it is to examine the Peshitta translation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. As it's written in...
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Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie
dale7344
Jan 6, 2010 8:49 pm
Thanks for that confirmation Sigrid. Dale...
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Cindy Smith
cms@...
Jan 19, 2010 7:51 am
While reading Daniel 10:13 in BibleWorks 8, I noticed that the BGT uses the phrase Ho Strategos basilews while Daniel (TH) 10:13 has ho arxwn basileias....
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Darrell H. Smith
sceptreofjudah
Jan 19, 2010 9:05 pm
Sar is indeed ruler, prince, or αρχων. However, in the specific application of waging warfare, taken in the context of the leader of a host of fighters, ...
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tachygraphy
Mar 26, 2010 12:15 pm
I just discovered a wonderful book on Amazon.com: "Notes on the Psalter: Extracts of Parallel Passages from the Prayer Book, Septuagint and Vulgate Versions",...
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John McChesney-Young
pogopossum00
Mar 26, 2010 12:50 pm
... It's also available at Google Books, viewable on-line and downloadable: ...
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J. K. Chesterton
vaisamar
Mar 26, 2010 10:55 pm
It is quite strange that I cannot see it as downloadable. I see it from Romania. Is there a copyright regulation which prevents me from seeing it as available?...
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Philip
philipengmann
Mar 27, 2010 4:36 am
Dear LXX Group, I am writing my PhD thesis in textual criticism. My topic is: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE LXX & THE MT: A STUDY OF NINE (9) SELECTED TEXTS. ...
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Jannes Smith
jannessmith2001
Mar 27, 2010 6:24 am
Dear Philip, 1. What are your ideas? 2. What do you mean by contextualization? E.g. whose context? 3. By LXX do you mean OG? Jannes -- Jannes Smith 46 Hayward...
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John McChesney-Young
pogopossum00
Mar 27, 2010 2:14 pm
... Unfortunately, Google thinks there is, or may be, one, and I apologize for forgetting the international readership of this group. See: ...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Mar 28, 2010 11:08 pm
Dear Philip: Hello! I would love to hep you, but please flesh out you idea/thesis a little more for me in regards to the various contextual differenced between...
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tachygraphy
Mar 29, 2010 3:36 pm
Peter Papoutsis wrote: PS Just so you know usually we reserve the term LXX for the first Five Books of Moses and OG (Old Greek) for the rest of the Greek Old...
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Sigrid Peterson
petersig
Mar 29, 2010 5:41 pm
David, "Septuagint" refers only to the (miraculous) translation from Hebrew, made by the Seventy scholars in Alexandria, in/around 300 BCE, and described first...
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tachygraphy
Mar 29, 2010 6:34 pm
Does that mean that Dr. Albert Pietersma was not following scholarly convention when he titled his translation of the Psalms, "A New English Translation of the...
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tachygraphy
Mar 29, 2010 7:00 pm
I'm looking for advice about peer reviews: what are the conventions, and how does one go about getting one (or some)? Is a fee customary and, if so, what is...
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Peter Papoutsis
papoutsis1
Mar 29, 2010 7:25 pm
Well, actually the Canons between the LXX and the MT are vastly different in the number of Books and in the texts that are used. As an Orthodox Christian I use...
