[B-Greek] Greek Versions
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Sun Nov 30 07:50:39 EST 2003
You need to read Jobes & Silva's *Invitation to the Septuagint* (see esp.
pp. 37-44, 48-53). They give a good, up-to-date summary of what we know of
each of these translations, along with bibliography for the material
published. The short answer is that we do not have complete copies of these
translations and they are not of the nature that you can order, say,
"Theodotion's Translation of the OT" from Amazon.com. They exist in various
degrees of completeness, often included in other works such as Origen's
Hexapla--which is also not extant (it was a mammoth work and only ever
existed (so far as we know) in a single copy; only partial copies are likely
to have been made). The standard edition of Origen's Hexapla (i.e., of the
parts that we have of it) is by Field, though it is long overdue for a major
updating and expansion (it is also long out of print, though most good
theological libraries should have a copy). The Hexapla contains parallel
columns giving, among other things, the versions of Aquila, Symmachus, and
Theodotion (cols. 3, 4, & 6). The other texts you list (Lucian, Kaige, etc.)
are recensions, not separate translations, and Jobes & Silva provide the
details for them also.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad
> [mailto:cwconrad.at.artsci.wustl.edu at bgreek.at.ntresources.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:33 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [B-Greek] Greek Versions
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> Forwarded for "Jonathan Bailey" <Artykaboom at aol.com>
> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 21:40:44 EST
>
> I am new to Greek scholarship, so please forgive me if I am ignorant.
>
> I am looking for Greek versions such as Theodotian, Lucian,
> Symmachus, Aquila, Kaige, etc. I can't seem to find them in
> published form anywhere. Do they exist? Are they available in
> any form at all? In all my textual criticism books, people
> sure do profess to know all about them, but I can never find
> them anywhere, nor have I ever bmped into anyone who has read them.
>
> "There is no place where phlegm cannot reach."
> Ancient Chinese Medical Proverb
>
> Jonathan Bailey
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