[B-Greek] LXX/Hebrew-GNT

bitan buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Tue Sep 27 07:00:02 EDT 2005


O DEINA EGRAPSEN
>Is there even a Bible that is all Greek (Septuagint and NT)?  That 
>is something I would probably be interested in long term.  I don't 
>have any immediate plans to study Hebrew.>

Several issues:
1.  For LXX-GNT, from Eric Weiss last month on this list,:
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
13555 Hillcrest Road, Dallas, Texas, 75240-5412
Phone: 972.991.1166. If you would like to request a specific item,
contact Erika Zanders, ezanders at ticnet.com

2. separate volumes are nice because you can open more than one at the same
time. UBS Rahlfs LXX and NA27 are almost the same size and carry nicely, to
these I would add a Horev/Breuer Hebrew Bible. It is smaller and lighter
than the BHS. The three together are a formidable hand span and you wouldn't
want them bound together. When I feel energetic I even carry the little
Schmoller GNT concordance which is the same size as NA27.

3. on ignoring Hebrew for the immediate future-
IOU'  IOU' ! 
OUK  OI~DAS  TI'  LE'GEIS.

DIA`  TI'  ANAGINW'SKEIS  THN  KAINH`N  DIAQH'KHN?

OUK  OI~DAS  O'TI  RABBOUNEI  TOIS  MATHTAI~S  AUTOU~ 
KAQ  HME'RAN  ANE'GINWSKE  TOUS  EBRAIKOU`S  GEGRAMME'NOUS? 

POU~  EURH'SEIS  O'TA  EIS  TO  AKOU'EIN? 
"H  KALH`  GH"  OI~DEN  O'TI  "TO EUREI~N  EKATOSTEU'OUSAN  KRIQH`N 
(GENESIS 26:12)"  QAUMA'SION  ESTI`N  KAI  E'RGON  OURA'NION, 
ALLA`  ANAKAI~ON  THS  EBRAIKH~S  GRAFH~S. 
XWRI`S  TWN  EBRAIKW~N  GEGRAMME'NWN  DY'SKOLON  ESTI`N  EUREI~N  O'TA.

Discussing the Hebrew Bible was engaging on multilevels 
in the first century, as it is now. It would seem to me 
that every reader of the GNT would work towards fluently
controlling the Hebrew Bible. It is very doable, 
OUK  EN  TW  OURANW~  A'NW  ESTI'N, but it requires setting a goal 
and walking down the path less traveled.

4. And Carl may write you to let you know that all persons 
named X need to adopt a second name. 
O DEI~NA NOEI'TW    "Let Mr. X be-mindful".

E'RRWSQE
Randall Buth

Randall Buth, PhD
Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
c/o margbuth at gmail.com
also, Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
under Rothberg International School,
Hebrew University
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il






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