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LXX Links

I realize that the Septuagint isn't technically a "NT Resource," but I run across material regarding the LXX from time to time that I want to index. I'm not a specialist in that field, though I maintain a generalist's interest from the perspective of teaching Greek and NT--and I do teach a course in which we read a great deal from the LXX.

• The New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS), of which Psalms is in print (transl. Pietersma; Oxford, 2000), can be read in a provisional edition of the entire OT on the web.
• LXX texts online
  • Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, ed. by H. B. Swete, v. 1, Genesis - 4 Kings; v. 2, 1 Chronicles - Tobit; v. 3, Hosea - 4 Maccabees (These are scanned images, not text. Follow the link "About this book" on the relevant Table of Contents page on the site linked here for the same in .rtf, .tiff, .png, and ThML formats.) This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.
  • The Old Testament in Greek (A. E. Brooke, N. McLean, H. St-J. Thackeray, ed.; London : Cambridge University Press, 1906-) Complete, high-quality, scanned images of this classic critical edition of the LXX; includes Genesis-Ruth. Note: userID and password required--but the dialog box does provide public access info (read the first line carefully!).
  • TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text-und Sprachmaterialien) searchable electronic edition (based on CCAT) using a Unicode font
  • MS Word zipped file of LXX text (Rahlfs) using Unicode font (from Ralph Hancock's site)
  • pdf files of LXX, book-by-book (also NT)
  • Origen's Hexapla, Field's edition, vol 1 (Gen-Esther), vol 2 (Job-Mal)
  • Brenton's parallel Greek-English edition of the LXX (image format), or just the English translation (text)
  • Rahlf's LXX with parallel translation (sometimes English, sometimes French!)
• Papyri images from LXX MSS (from Duke Papyrus Archive)
  • Prayer using LXX Psalms 26 and 41 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 660)
  • LXX Psalm 50:17-20 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 661 V)
  • LXX Psalm 88:4-8 and 15-18 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 740)
  • LXX Psalm 90 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 778)
  • Liturgical text with LXX Psalm 150 in Greek (P.Duk.inv. 668)
• Papyri images from LXX MSS, Univ. of Koln., P 967 Rahlfs (page text in German)
  • Books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Bel and the Dragon, Susanna, and Esther
• The Henry Barclay Swete site has a page with a number of Swete's LXX articles accessible (full text, a few of which I've linked just below), along with an extensive Swete bibliography. (Site changed URLs fall 2002--and I still haven't had time to figure out all the changes and correct the links here.)
• Graetz's Theory of the LXX, The Expository Times 2 (1891) 209.
• The Old Testament in Greek. (H. B. Swete) Two Lectures given at the Cambridge Local Lectures Summer Meeting, July 1908: Origin, Contents, and Language of the Septuagint; other Greek versions of the Old Testament, The Interpreter 5 (1908/09) 17-33; and The Greek Old Testament in the Christian Church, The Interpreter 5 (1908/09) 129-146. [These links may or may not work; problems noted 11/02; try accessing them from the main "Swete site" listed above.]
• An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek by H. B. Swete (These are scanned images, not text. Follow the link "About this book" on the relevant Table of Contents page on the site linked here for the same in .rtf, .tiff, .png, and ThML formats.) This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.
• An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek by H. B. Swete (Same book as above, but on the TC/RelTech site. These are scanned images, not text.)
• Grammar of Septuagint Greek by F. C. Conybeare (These are scanned images, not text. Follow the link "About this book" on the relevant Table of Contents page on the site linked here for the same in .rtf, .tiff, .png, and ThML formats.) This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.
• Albert Pietersma's (editor/transl. of NETS) home page, includes links to a number of his own resources for both LXX and Greek NT
• Notes on the LXX (R. Grant Jones) Includes the history of the LXX and the New Testament authors' dependence on the Septuagint. Numerous lists and tables of data. Author states: "I am not an expert in either Greek or Hebrew. A physicist by education, I have no formal training in religion, theology or scripture studies."
• Septuagint Greek Compared to NT Greek, Lee Roy Martin (7/8/97)
• The 'Textual Mechanics' of Early Jewish LXX/OG Papyri and Fragments (Robert A. Kraft)
• Some Observations on Early Papyri and MSS for LXX/OG Study (Robert A. Kraft)
• The Transmission-History of the Septuagint (William W. Combs) < broken link; need new URL (if available)
• Review (by Gerard Norton) of Albert Pietersma, translator. A New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included under that Title: The Psalms. New York/Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. pp. xxvii + 149. ISBN 0-19-529752-0 (cloth), 0-19-529753-9 (paper). US $29.99 (cloth), $12.99 (paper).
• Review (by James Barr) of Silva and Jobes, Invitation to the Septuagint (Baker, 2000).

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