Fwd: Re: KURIOS in the LXX

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 13 23:53:57 EDT 2002


Forwarded for George Somsel:

>In a message dated 9/13/2002 1:52:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>RDelozier at apolresearch.org writes:
>
>>I am looking for the oldest LXX manuscript that has KURIOS where the MT has
>>the Tetragrammaton. Are there any Manuscripts in the BC era with this
>>reading?
>>
>
>
>The LXX is not strictly speaking one document.  It seems that the
>Pentateuch was first translated followed by the rest of the books at a
>later time.  There are LXX type Greek texts of portions of the TANAK on
>papyri as old as the 2nd cent. BC.  In the ABD article 'Septuagint' there
>is a chart showing some of these.  There is not sufficient specificity to
>determine whether KURIOS appears there specifically for the
>Tetragrammaton, though it does in Rahlf's LXX.
>
>Rahlf's #  Contents                           Date
>957         20 vv Deut 23-28               2nd c BC
>941         frag. Gen 7 & 38               late 1st c BC
>847         parts Deut 11 & 31-33       early 1st c AD
>848         parts Deut 17-33               late 1st c BC
>819         Deut 11.4                         2nd BC
>801         Lev 26.2-16                       late 2nd c BC-early 1st BC
>805         Ex 28.4-7                          ca 100 BC
>802         Lev 2-5 with lacunae           1st c BC
>803         Num 3.30-4.14 with lac.      1st c BC
>943         frag Minor Prophets            late 1st c BC-early 1st AD
>
>gfsomsel





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