Well, I've been carefully examining the Douay-Rheims translation recently (which is from the Vulgate, which is the Gallican Psalter of St. Jerome, which is a...
... Back when this group began, I sat down to try normalizing Coverdale to the Greek. I quit after the third kathisma, because it turned out Coverdale isn't...
Glad to see that Silouan's experience confirms my own! Also, I wrote: "If you *really* want a traditional English language Western Psalter that is close to the...
HAPPY NEW YEAR! For most Orthodox Christians, who observe the traditional Ecclesiastical or "Julian" Calendar, tonight is the beginning of September 1st, and...
... I hadn't looked at tonight's Menaion yet, so thanks for the reminder. Oddly enough they calendars synch up this year so that today is also Rosh Hashonah,...
In a message dated 9/13/2007 3:25:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, athanasiosj@... writes: Year of the World seven-thousand five-hundred and sixteen. How...
calculated from creation, not the flood, and according to the chronology of the LXX and not the Hebrew. Typikon cycle is also based on this year from creation....
It's calculated from creation, not the flood, and calculated using genealogies with years according to the LXX where differ from MT. The Typikon cycle also...
WHEW! first off, whether this Jewish legend, nowhere present in Scripture that I have noticed, and if it is please point it out? has any basis in reality or...
In a message dated 9/14/2007 10:22:58 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mitrophan@... writes: It's calculated from creation, not the flood, and calculated...
I am new and was wondering what Contos psalter is? Is this the psalter that is in accordance with the Septuagint and is chantable? And if there is a copy I...
Fr Ambrose, I believe that this was not a matter of translating from the Hebrew rather than from the LXX, but of consulting the Hebrew and in a few instances...
Has the pre-Challoner Douai been posted to the internet? The KJV translators had some hard things to say about it, and on the whole I think they were right--it...
My copy of Archimandrite Lazarus's version, printed in India by a printer who greatly frustrated Archimandrite Lazarus and introduced errors in the published...
Two years ago Andrew Bond in the UK republished the original Jordanville Prayer Book (the "Mother of God" vs. the later "Theotokos" version.) He also had plans...
This is good news. I still have a copy, rather the worse for wear, of the old Jordanville Prayer Book; but I would like to replace my lost copy of the Psalter....
... As hyperbole, I like "Your cup is most excellently intoxicating" in the sense of ecstatic joy. But as a serious translation I'd want something more like...
... I think in this instance, the number of the Psalm is the same in both the LXX and the Vulgate (whose Psalter derives from the LXX), and in the Douay-Rheims...
Right you are, Athanasios! The categories are not "Eastern" and "Western" at all, but Hebrew and LXX. Until the aftermath of Vatican II, Roman Catholics...
Being new to Orthodoxy how good is the translation of Brentons Septuagint's Psalter? I have noticed there are more Lords than Yahweh.And it is more readable...
... Brenton's English style is difficult for some folks to read. His translation from the Greek is not bad, but he sometimes decides to translate the familiar...
Has anyone here obtained the newly-published *complete* Orthodox Study Bible? If so, I would be interested in your thoughts concerning the new Psalter...
Hi Athanasios, I've ordered and paid for it thru Amazon.com but it's unfortunately, it's not due to arrive till July - so I can't say anyting. But I am...
... Dear Nat, Well, since they call it a "Study Bible," I assume their Psalter text is primarily for "study." I don't see why we can't "study" a good...
THE CENTER FOR TRADITIONALIST ORTHODOX STUDIES announces, after several years in production, the publication of THE PSALTER arranged for Orthodox liturgical...
