The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint

by Swete, Henry Barclay

• ISBN13: 9781108007276
• ISBN10: 1108007279
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-22
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Volume 3 of The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, edited by the Cambridge scholar Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917), was first published in 1894. It contains the books from Hosea to 4 Maccabees with the Psalms of Solomon as an appendix. Swete set an important precedent for later editors by using an actual manuscript text as the edition's base. He selected the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, which is still widely considered to contain the earliest and most valuable form of Septuagint text; many later editors have followed suit. Where Vaticanus was defective the text was supplemented by Codex Alexandrinus or another important uncial manuscript. A critical apparatus contains the readings of eleven manuscripts for the Prophets and Maccabees, three for the Psalms, and five minuscules for the Psalms of Solomon. The edition's clarity helped it become one of the most widely used versions of the Septuagint.

Table of Contents

Preface

Hosea

Amos

Micah

Joel

Obadiah

Jonah

Nahum

Habbakuk

Zephaniah

Haggai

Zachariah

Malachi

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Baruch

Lamentations

Letter of Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Susanna

Bel and the dragon

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

3 Maccabees

4 Maccabees

Psalms of Solomon

Songs

Appendix

Corrigenda

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