Brooke mclean septuagint diplomatic edition basileion. This is the old testament according to the codex vaticanus. The translators were likely jews of the dispersion, living in alexandria, egypt. In response to questions about the best available critical editions of the socalled septuagint or old greek lxxog for use in scholarly discussion and development, including electronically based research, the executive committee of the international organization for septuagint and cognate studies offers the following rationale and. How to read and understand the gottingen septuagint. For gottingen it denotes respectively alfred rahlfss handausgabe 1935 and the. Part i the old testament palmer theological seminary. Septuagint of the lxx, quoted according to the gottingen and cambridge editions.
Interlinear greek english septuagint old testament lxx. London cambridgeuniversitypress fetterlane newyork. The old testament in greek according to the text of codex vaticanus in contrast to the eclectic text of the gattingen series, this older critical edition, known as the larger cambridge septuagint, is a diplomatic text, reproducing codex vaticanus with a critical apparatus with variant readings from other manuscripts. Thackeray, the old testament in greek according to the text of codex vaticanus cambridge 19061940. Toronto bombay calcutta madras macmillan tokyo maruzencompanyltd allrightsreserved. Mt bhs s the leiden edition of the peshitta, when extant. The original codex vaticanus dates back to about the 4th century. The name of the codex comes from the place where it is kept. Sandersco schmidt, the minor prophets in the freer collection and.