The Septuagint
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The Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology.
Edited by W. D. Davies and D. Daube. Cambridge: Cambridge University press,
1964. Katz, P. "Septuagintal Studies in the Mid-Century", pp.
176-208.
BS2393 .D3
Blaiklock, E. M. "Septuagint." In The Zondervan
Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 5. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1975. Pp. 342-347.
Ref. BS440 .Z63 v.5
Brock, Sebastian P., Charles T. Fritsch and Sidney Jellicoe.
A Classified Bibliography of the Septuagint. Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1973. 217p.
Ref. Z7772 .A1 B7
Bruce, F. F. The Books and the Parchments: Some Chapters
on the Transmission of the Bible. Third and revised edition. Westwood,
NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1963. Chapter 12, "The Old Testament in Greek",
pp. 146-162.
BS450 .B78
Bruce, F. F. The Canon of Scripture. Downers Grove,
IL: InterVarsity Press, 1988. Chapter 3, "The Greek Old Testament",
pp. 43-54.
BS465 .B78 1988
Caragounis, C. C. "Aristeas, Epistle of." In Dictionary
of New Testament Background. Edited by Craig A. Evans and Stanley E.
Porter. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000. Pp. 114-118.
Ref. BS2312 .D53 2000
Danker, Frederick W. Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study.
Revised and Expanded Edition. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993. Chapter
4, "The Greek Old Testament", pp. 61-76; Chapter 5, "The
Use of the Septuagint", pp. 77-88.
BS511.2 .D355 1993
Dines, Jennifer. "Septuagint." In A Dictionary
of Biblical Interpretation. Edited by R. J. Coggins and J. L. Houlden.
Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990. Pp. 622-625.
Ref. BS500 .D5 1990
Filson, Floyd V. "Translate the Septuagint." In
Festschrift to Honor F. Wilbur Gingrich. Edited by Eugene Howard
Barth and Ronald Edwin Cocroft. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1972. Pp. 142-146.
BS540 .F47
Greenspoon, Leonard. "Hebrew Into Greek: Interpretation
In, By, and Of the Septuagint." In A History of Biblical Interpretation,
Volume 1: The Ancient Period. Edited by Alan J. Hauser & Duane
F. Watson. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. Chapter 3, pp. 80-113.
BS500 .H575 2003 v.1
Harrison, Everett F. "The Importance of the Septuagint
for Biblical Studies." In Truth for Today: Bibliotheca Sacra Reader.
Edited by John F. Walvoord. Chicago: Moody Press, 1963. Pp. 143-154.
BR50 .B45
Jellicoe, Sidney. The Septuagint and Modern Study.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. 424p. Bibliography, pp. 370-400.
BS744 .J44
Jobes, Karen H. and Moisés Silva. Invitation to the
Septuagint. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2000. 351 p.
BS744 .J63 2000
Katz, P. "Septuagintal Studies in the Mid-century: Their
Links with the Past and Their Present Tendencies." In The Background
of the New Testament and Its Eschatology. Edited by W. D. Davies. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1956. Pp. 176-208.
BS2393 .D3
Kenyon, Frederic G. The Text of the Greek Bible: A Student's
Handbook. London: Duckworth, 1949. Chapter II, "The Greek Old Testament",
pp. 24-65.
BS38 .K37
Klein, Ralph W. Textual Criticism of the Old Testament:
The Septuagint After Qumran. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973. 84
p.
BS1136 .K55
Lohse, Eduard. The New Testament Environment. Nashville:
Abingdon, 1976. "The Septuagint", pp. 128-133.
BS2410 .L6413
McLay, R. Timothy. The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament
Research. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003. 207p.
BS744 .M35 2003
Orlinsky, Harry M. "The Septuagint and Its Hebrew Text."
In The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 2: The Hellenistic
Age. Edited by W.D. Davies and Louis Finkelstein. Cambridge: Cambrdige
University Press, 1989. Pp. 534-562, 706-708.
BM155.2 .C35 v.2
Peters, Melvin K. H. "Septuagint." In Anchor
Bible Dictionary, Volume 5. Editor-in-Chief, David Noel Freedman. New
York: Doubleday, 1992. Pp. 1093-1104.
Ref. BS440 .A54 1992 v.5
Porter, S. E. "Septuagint/Greek Old Testament."
In Dictionary of New Testament Background. Edited by Craig A. Evans
and Stanley E. Porter. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000. Pp.
1099-1106.
Ref. BS2312 .D53 2000
Price, Ira Maurice. The Ancestry of Our English Bible.
Third revised edition, by William A. Irwin and Allen P. Wikgren. New York:
Harper and Brothers, 1956. "The Greek Bible: The Septuagint",
pp.50-71.
BS445 .P7 1956
Reumann, John H. P. The Romance of Bible Scripts and Scholars:
Chapters in the History of Bible Transmission and Translation. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. Chapter One, "The 'Committee of Seventy'
and Its Work, The Septuagint: Bible Translation in the Ancient World",
pp. 5-24; Chapter Six, "The 'Manuscript Detective': Constantin Tischendorf
(1815-1874) and Bible Translation", pp. 145-162.
BS445 .R4
Roberts, Bleddyn J. The Old Testament Text and Versions.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1951. Part 2, "The Septuagint and
the Greek Versions", pp. 101-187.
BS1136 .R63 1976
Schwarz, Werner. Principles and Problems of Biblical Translation:
Some Reformation Controversies and Their Background. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1955. Chapter II, "Discussions on the Origin of the
Septuagint", pp. 17-44.
BS450 .S3
Shutt, R. J. H. "Letter of Aristeas: A New Translation
and Introduction." In The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, Volume
2. Edited by James H. Charlesworth. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company,
1985. Pp. 7-34.
Ref. BS1830 .A3 1983 v.2
Soderlund, S. K. "Septuagint." In The International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Volume 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans,
1988. Pp. 400-409.
Ref. BS440 .I6 1979 v.4
Surburg, Raymond F. Introduction to the Intertestamental
Period. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1975. Chapter XI, "The
Translation of the Hebrew Old Testament into Greek", pp. 72-79.
BM176 .S94
Swete, Henry Barclay. An Introduction to the Old Testament
in Greek. Revised by Richard Rusden Ottley. New York: KTAV Publishing
House, 1968. 626p.
BS738 .S8 1968
Tov, E. "The Text of the Old Testament; (2) The Septuagint."
In The World of the Bible. General editor, A. S. van der Woude. Grand
Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1986. Pp. 173-178.
BS475.2 .W4713 1986
Tov, Emanuel. "The Septuagint." In Mikra: Text,
Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism
and Early Christianity. Edited by Martin Jan Mulder and Harry Sysling.
Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988. Chapter 5, pp. 161-188.
BM485 .L57 1984 v.1
Tov, Emanuel and Robert A. Kraft. "Septuagint."
In The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. Supplementary Volume.
Nashville: Abingdon, 1976. Pp. 807-815.
Ref. BS440 .I63 Suppl.
Wevers, J. W. "Septuagint." In The Interpreter's
Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 4. New York and Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1962. Pp. 273-278.
Ref. BS440 .I63 v.4
Wevers, J. W. "Septuagint." In The Interpreter's
Dictionary of the Bible, Volume 4. New York and Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1962. Pp. 273-278.
Ref. BS440 .I63 v.4
Wevers, J. W. "Septuagint." In Dictionary of
Biblical Interpretation, Volume K-Z. General Editor, John H. Hayes Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1999. Pp. 457-462.
Ref. BS500 .D54 1999 v.2
Würthwein, Ernst. The Text of the Old Testament:
An Introduction to Kittel-Kahle's Biblia Hebraica. New York: Macmillan,
1957. "The Septuagint", pp. 34-56.
BS1185 .W87
Combs, William W. "The Transmission-History of the Septuagint." Bibliotheca Sacra 146 (July-September 1989): 255-269.
Danker, Frederick W. "Aids to Bible Study: The Septuagint - Its History." Concordia Theological Monthly 30 (April 1959): 271-284.
Epstein, Marcelo. "On the 'Original' Septuagint." Bible Translator 45 (July 1994): 322-328.
Greenspoon, Leonard J. "Major Septuagint Manuscripts - Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus." Bible Review 5 (August 1989): 38-39.
Greenspoon, Leonard J. "Mission to Alexandria: Truth and Legend About the Creation of the Septuagint, The First Bible Translation." Bible Review 5 (August 1989): 34-37, 40-41. Illus.
Hadidian, Dikran Y. "The Septuagint and Its Place in Theological Education." Expository Times 76 (October 1964 - September 1965): 102-103. (Not in PUC Library).
Harrison, Everett F. "The Importance of the Septuagint for Biblical Studies (Part 1)." Bibliotheca Sacra 112 (October 1955): 344-355.
Jellicoe, S. "The Septuagint To-day." Expository Times 77 (October 1965 - September 1966): 68-74. (Not in PUC Library).
Jellicoe, Sidney. "Septuagint Studies in the Current Century." Journal of Biblical Literature 88 (June 1969): 191-199.
Metzger, Bruce M. "Important Early Translations of the Bible." Bibliotheca Sacra 150 (January - March 1993): 35-49 ("Septuagint", pp. 36-40).
Orlinksy, Harry M. "Qumran and the Present State of Old Testament Text Studies: The Septuagint Text." Journal of Biblical Literature 78 (March 1959): 26-33.
Peters, Melvin K. H. "Why Study the Septuagint?" Biblical Archaeologist 49 (September 1986): 174-181.
Pietersma, Albert. "Septuagint Research: A Plea for a Return to Basic Issues." Vetus Testamentum 35 (July 1985): 296-311.
Taylor, Bernard A. "The Septuagint Still Speaks!" Ministry 57 (October 1984): 28-29.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Septuagint Version
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13722a.htm
The Greek New Testament Gateway: Septuagint
http://www.ntgateway.com/greek/lxx.htm
The International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/
IOSCS (International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate
Studies)
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/
The Septuagint
http://members.ozemail.com/au/~pballard/lxx.html
The Septuagint Online: Electronic Resources for the Study of
the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions
http://students.cua.edu/16kalvesmaki/lxx/
The Septuagint: The Greek Old Testament
http://www.spindleworks.com/septuagint/septuagint.htm
The Septuagint: Theological and Academic Resources for the
Study of the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions
http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ecs/jdk/LXX/