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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