Septuagint Bibliography

William Ross has made his Septuagint bibliography available here. It contains over 750 entries!

Reading the Septuagint

William Ross has some helpful thoughts here.

Septuaginta: A Reader’s Edition

I almost purchased this last this new reader's edition last year and I still want to do so. This brief article provides further incentive to do so.

Reader's Edition of the Septuagint

You can listen here to the two editors talk about the Septuagint generally and the Reader's Edition of the Septuagint specifically.

Mark 1:13 and the Old Testament

John Meade notes here some possible allusions in Mark 1:13 to the LXX of Leviticus 26:6 and Psalm 90:11-13. The possible connections are interesting and perhaps correct but I think he overstates the conclusion.

"The allusions to the Old Testament are actually the key to understanding the brief pericope itself. The allusions indicate that Jesus as Son obeyed under temptation and trial, was consequently blessed, and dealt a decisive blow to Satan in the wilderness."

I doubt whether understanding these allusions are the "key." One could probably understand that, "Jesus as Son obeyed under temptation and trial, was consequently blessed, and dealt a decisive blow to Satan in the wilderness" without picking up on the allusions. One could also question whether Mark's primarily Gentile audience have picked up on these subtle allusions.  

Peter Williams: “On the Invention and Problem of the Term ‘Septuagint’”

William Ross has posted a brief description and video here of Peter Williams' ETS paper, “On the Invention and Problem of the Term ‘Septuagint’”

The Septuagint and Biblical Theology

Check out Ed Glenny's article, "The Septuagint and Biblical Theology." It is available as a free PDF here.

Volumes of The Old Testament in Greek according to the Text of Codex Vaticanus Online

The nine published volumes of The Old Testament in Greek according to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, are available as free PDFs at Internet Archive here.

HT: David Stark

Emanuel Tov Interview

William Ross has an interesting interview here with Emanuel Tov related to Septuagint studies.

The Septuagint

Paul Lawrence provides a brief history of the Septuagint here.

Paul to Malta and Happy Septuagint Day

Paul may have sailed from Malta to Rome on this day nearly two thousand years ago. You can read more about it here.

Today is also the 10th annual International Septuagint Day. You can read about that here.

Hurtado on the Septuagint

Larry Hurtado has a brief primer on the Septuagint and some suggestions on related helpful resources here.

Hurtado on NT Studies and the Septuagint

  
Larry Hurtado comments here on the importance of the Septuagint (LXX) for the study of the New Testament.

Additions to Daniel and Esther in the Septuagint

See William Varner's discussion concerning the additions to Daniel and Esther in the Septuagint here.

Reasons to Study the Septuagint

In honor of the International Septuagint Day, Tyler Williams has provided a mostly-serious list of reasons for studying the Septuagint.

• The Septuagint preserves a number of Jewish-Greek writings from the pre-Christian era not contained in the Hebrew Bible (known in Christian circles as the Apocrypha or the Deuterocanonical works)
• As such, study of the LXX can provide a glimpse into the thought and theology of diaspora Jews before the common era.
• For the majority of the books of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, the LXX provides us the earliest witness to the biblical text (earlier than most of Hebrew witnesses found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example) and is indispensable for textual criticism.
• The LXX provides a unique glimpse into the literary and textual development for some books of the Old Testament (e.g., Jeremiah, Esther, Daniel), as well as the sometimes fuzzy border between literary development and textual transmission.
• Insofar that all translations are interpretations, the LXX provides one of the earliest commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.
• The LXX gives us a glimpse of the shape of the OT canon before the common era (at least for Greek-speaking Judaism in the diaspora, perhaps not for Palestinian Jews).
• The LXX functioned as the Bible of most of the early Greek-speaking Christians (and continues to function as such for the Greek Orthodox Church).
• In connection with the previous point, the LXX often served as a theological lexicon for the writers of the NT, and as such it provides a fruitful avenue of research into the background of many of the theological terms and concepts in the NT.
• The LXX was the preferred Scriptures for many of the early church fathers and is essential for understanding early theological discussions.
• It’s a great conversation starter at parties (Attractive Woman/Man: “Read any good books lately?” Budding LXX student: “Why yes, I was just reading the Septuagint today!” Attractive Woman/Man: “The Sept-tu-a-what?” Budding LXX student: “Let me buy your a drink and tell you more…”)

Read the entire post here.

Online Septuagint Interlinear

Some might be interested in this online Septuagint interlinear that you can access here. Update: This link no longer works and I have not been able to locate another LXX interlinear.

If you want to access a Greek text you can try here or here.