The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint

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Third Edition, 1905.IK volume thepresent manual edition of" ihecompletes Cambridge The work was commenced in>eptuaj;int. the first volumeiSS^; in the second in Kittle is neededappeared iXS;, ofifyi. by way preface to this last instalment of a task. Thelon^ whichgeneral principles upon the edition is based were stated in the to the first and bothpreface volume, the earlier volumes have been some account of the MSS.accompanied by used in the of the text and notes. Itpreparation remains to addonly par ticulars to the volume which is now in the srelating reader hands. In the it has been toProphets m addition to thepossible employ, i^real codices the CodexBKA, Marchaliamis the Codex(O|, rescriptus Crypto- Ierrateiisis and the Dublin(I ), of Isaiah asfragments well as those(()), TIMedited heiidorf (/.). It is uellby known that in Daniel the text of tin- KXX. is in one MS. apreserved cursive, and notonly, earlier than the ninth Before the ofcentury. the Church haddays Jerome ceased to read the of its roomSeptua^int Daniel, been idled thehaving versionby attributed to .Theodolion This is not the to anplace attempt explanation of the or to discussfact, the relation of the two versions to one another and to the But since the is an edition (original. ,,| il,c )\<\present Testament in Creek a. to the K\.\.. the KXX.cording version has bcni restored in Daniel to -he of honour, whilst \\e haveplace to it ;\tplaced eachopposite tin; version ofop.-nin- Theodotion, as the Creekwhich, Daniel of the < huuh Bible, must be to the studentalways indispensable of ancient Christian liteiature as well as of the and the criticism of theliterary history 1 Hirr..,,. ,,t J >.,/: illu.l ,/,./ . ..Kouu,- clccturcni.ulmunco,I>aiHrlci.in<,i.i llainrleni. K ,iK .|,i,l -x-cc.m,yuclccturcni.ulmunco,I>aiHrlci.in<,i.iuxCal,\\\\ sc.l mxt.4 I hc-Kloi.,-.!,-.,,hc-Kloi.,-.utti-rprrtcs arum iii.li.iim, " stiiiiuliis MIIII?" 1o.. le.M.is Lf. ,/</ A ////.Icucrc." .//.-/.liook. Daniel is in fc< but ; with Tunfortunately wanting BA<J, together and a Bodleian of a ofnewly />/ and theacquired fragment (A) portion a fair amount of uncial for the text ofDragon, Theodotion.supply authority The hastext been derived from Co/./a s of theSeptuagint transcript Chigi but it has been desirable toMS.; follow Tischendorf sthought example and to at the foot of the the of thegive page readirrgs Syro-hexaplaric our other For this a of sversion, collation Cerianionly authority. purpose 1of the MS. has been made Norman McLean,photolithograph Syriac by Fellow of Christ s who has theEsq., College, kindly superintended pas of its the Press, and has the editor withsage readings through supplied a of the MS., which will be found in thedescription proper place. The Vatican MS., whose text and order we have folgreat generally ends with the For the Hooks of thelowed, Maccabees we have-Prophets. been to look elsewhere, and since the Codex Alexandrinus is thecompelled Uncial which contains them all, the text of that MS. has beenonly early in the notes to these Hooks use has been made ofadopted throughout -; the Codex Sinaiticus so far as it is available, and of the important although late Code\ Venetus. which has been collated for thisrelatively newly purpose. The Hooks of the Maccabees are followed three collections which,by if cannot in strictness be said to to the Creek Oldthey Testament,belong have some claims to a at the close of the Alexandrian Hible.peculiar place The Psalms of Solomon, not included in uncial MS..atthough actually any one time followed the New Testament in the Codex Alexandrinus, and are to be found in several cursive. MSS. of the Books. The Hook ofSapiential Enoch holds an in literature, and isimportant position pre-Christian Jewisli cited in the New Testament ; and the extant of ( Ithe reek versionfragments of Enoch deserve for reasons the serious attention ofmany Biblical students. The Odes are as at the end of the Psalter of Codexprinted they appear Alexandrinus, with the various of the Verona and Zurich MSS..readings the former from Hianchini s verified a examinationtranscript, by personal of the MS., the latter from Tischendorf s facsimile". Some interest will be infound the text of the Old Testament asCanticlescomparing they appear in MS. Psalters with that which in the Hooks from whichthey present they 1 A. (.Vrjani: < <>./,. i r/.v to .S>;v//,- JYI//.I s.iry admit a considerable mim1>cr of Amhrfisianns liicf 1it,i< correctionsfilioto-litliogr.i/ from the other MSS. Occa (M.diol. 1874). all th- uncial MSS. are at fault.sionally : from the convenience of tlii-. andApart here a roni-itm,- lias been allowed arrangement, the selection i, to takeperhap, justi- a in the text Inprovisional place tied on the whole the character of the allby such cases the arerejected readings A text of the Maccabees. J5nt the , recorded in the in>tevopy 1 -which tin- scril>e of A follows was so care- See vol. ii. i\. \ipp. written that it \\.\-. b -en found neces-lessly