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ton verdam · February 2010

I oftentimes see brackets appear in text without the text that should be in there. See example:

When a passage occurred in the Hebrew but not in the Septuagint, Origen would insert that passage from Theodotion’s version and mark its beginning with an asterisk ( or ).

Geisler, N. L., & Nix, W. E. (1996). A general introduction to the Bible (Rev. and expanded.) (508). Chicago: Moody Press.

I have tried dozens of fonts and have greek and hebrew enables but still no text shows up. Anyobe have a suggestion which font to use?

Mark Smith · February 2010

I see the problem. Here is a screen shot. (Page 508-09). Perhaps these were not coded in properly??

Ward Walker · June 2011

ton verdam said:

I oftentimes see brackets appear in text without the text that should be in there. See example:

When a passage occurred in the Hebrew but not in the Septuagint, Origen would insert that passage from Theodotion’s version and mark its beginning with an asterisk ( or ).

Geisler, N. L., & Nix, W. E. (1996). A general introduction to the Bible (Rev. and expanded.) (508). Chicago: Moody Press.

I have tried dozens of fonts and have greek and hebrew enables but still no text shows up. Anyobe have a suggestion which font to use?

I just came across this myself in this resource. I think it must be a typo; perhaps a Syriac font should have been used for these symbols. The best Hexapla examples I could find in one location are at this link. Google books doesn't offer a preview of Geisler's book, and I don't have a hard copy so I can't confirm what the text should say.

Tonya J Ross · June 2011

ton verdam said:
I have tried dozens of fonts and have greek and hebrew enables but still no text shows up. Anyobe have a suggestion which font to use?

I went through all the fonts and none of them correctly display these characters (not even Chiller! [;)])

I'll submit a report for the issue.