[B-Greek] SATAN in LXX

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Sat Jan 8 13:26:03 EST 2011


On Jan 8, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:

> I liked Al's comment, "The spirit is willing but the evidence is  
> weak." I guess that about does it.
>
> Thanks to all who replied. Ken, thanks for the list of passages  
> where σαταν (SATAN) stands for שטן in variant readings cited  
> in the apparatus of the Göttingen Septuagint.
Not to be picky but most (if not all) of them stand in the Göttingen  
second apparatus, which means that they stem from translations other  
than the seventy, though they may have intruded on the LXX tradition.
Al
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> Jeff Smelser
>

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