Tag: Septuagint
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What They Thought when They Were Wrong
Wisdom of Solomon, Chapter 2 Greek text This is what they said to themselves when they were thinking wrongly: Our life is short and stressful, and there’s no remedy for a person’s death. For someone to return from Hades is unheard of. We were born out of the blue, and in the future it will […]
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Webinar: Studying LXX in Accordance
Abram KJ is going to be leading a webinar on studying the Septuagint in Accordance. It starts at 2pm EST today. Sorry for the late notice. Sign up here if you can.
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Montanari talks about BrillDAG
Is a new dictionary of ancient Greek necessary? On Brill’s language and linguistics blog, Franco Montanari answers this question and talks about the distinctive features of his new lexicon. This is a really helpful post highlighting three reasons why he thinks his lexicon is necessary: Progress in our understanding of ancient Greek The evolution of […]
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Göttingen Job in Accordance
“The Septuagint says …” You can’t responsibly finish that sentence without checking a Göttingen edition. If there is no Göttingen edition for a particular book, then we usually turn to Rahlfs, but his edition was never intended to be the last word on the Old Greek (“Septuagint”) text. Why Göttingen? This point is not widely […]
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Spinning Flowers and Anxiety
Lilies don’t spin. But what does that have to do with anything? I’ve read Matthew several times, but for some reason I’ve never pursued exactly what is meant when Jesus says that the lilies don’t “spin.” Matthew 6:28–29 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither labor nor spin, but I tell […]
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Holmes-Parsons Ecclesiastes
Just the other day I was looking for a PDF of the Holmes-Parsons edition of Ecclesiastes. John Meade helped me find it online here. In fact, all five volumes are available online. Today, I got to see the real thing:
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Interview with Two Editors of the Lexham English Septuagint
Rick Brannan and Ken Penner were kind enough to sit down and talk with me about a recently published English translation of the LXX, the Lexham English Septuagint (LES). I shared an early draft of these questions with a few friends who are involved in Septuagint studies, and couple of them had questions of their own. I […]