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A Thorough, Accessible Introduction to the Greek Translation of the Old Testament. Most people think that the Septuagint—the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament—is only for scholars. But understanding even the basics about the Septuagint is helpful for academics and laypeople alike. In this book, scholars Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross examine what the Septuagint is and why...

Tetrapla—or whether Origen actually created the Tetrapla first (if at all). Obviously, many areas of Hexapla research remain quite unsettled. What is certain is that the edition of the Greek Old Testament text that was produced from Origen’s fifth column, often called the “Hexaplaric recension,” became extremely influential over the following centuries. Two later scholars—Pamphilus, the custodian of Origen’s personal library, and Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea—continued to develop the text between
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