UID:
almafu_9960118698902883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 887 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-69545-4
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Religion
Uniform Title:
Bible. Selections. Greek. Old Testament. Septuagint.
Content:
Volume 3 of The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, edited by the Cambridge scholar Henry Barclay Swete, was first published in 1894. It contains the books from Hosea to 4 Maccabees with the Psalms of Solomon as an appendix. Swete set an important precedent for later editors by using an actual manuscript text as the edition's base. He selected the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, which is still widely considered to contain the earliest and most valuable form of Septuagint text; many later editors have followed suit. Where Vaticanus was defective the text was supplemented by Codex Alexandrinus or another important uncial manuscript. A critical apparatus contains the readings of eleven manuscripts for the Prophets and Maccabees, three for the Psalms, and five minuscules for the Psalms of Solomon. The edition's clarity helped it become one of the most widely used versions of the Septuagint.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2009.
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Originally published: Cambridge: University Press, 1894.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-00727-9
Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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