Septuaginta

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edited November 2024 in English Forum

Hi

what is the Best greek Septuaginta to Work with Logos?

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    what is the Best greek Septuaginta to Work with Logos?

    The Gottingen Septuagint if you want a critical edition.

    The Logos Septuagint with you want morphology and the ability to compare with the Hebrew text, or Swete's if you can't afford it. The Logos Septuagint is is based on Rahlf's, which is considered a better text that either Swete's or Brenton's.

    The Lexham Greek-English Interlinear (Rahlf's) if you want an interlinear (or Swete's if your budget is tight).

     Brenton's if you can't afford anything else (it has no Hebrew morphology).

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  • NB.Mick
    NB.Mick MVP Posts: 16,201

    what is the Best greek Septuaginta to Work with Logos?

    "Best" is of course subject to your study needs (and budget).

    The Reading List of Greek Bible Text Resources in Logos gives you the options in Section 4 (note that Brenton's unmorphed text is not listed here but as a Vaticanus edition under Section 2 "Codexes"):

    If you want to go back and forth between Hebrew, Greek and English, you may even want two: Logos LXX with Hebrew RI and LXX Interlinear:

     

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  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭

    For anyone else passing thru:

    - Gottingen is heavy-duty and not yet complete. Read greek? Need to. And given the price, you'd do well to research the other choices outside Logos.

    - Logos Septuagint is necessary for a host of Logos lemma studies. However the displayed morphs are the hebrew. You'll need the LXX interlinear(s) for displayed greek morphs. Additionally there's no english glosses.

    - The SESB (several groupings) provides the quickest access to  LXX critical apparatus that hits the highpoints. If you get both the hebrew and LXX, you get two decent apparatus resources (plus the WIVU intro).

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  • Rick Brannan (Logos)
    Rick Brannan (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,862

    Denise said:

    - The SESB (several groupings) provides the quickest access to  LXX critical apparatus that hits the highpoints. If you get both the hebrew and LXX, you get two decent apparatus resources (plus the WIVU intro).

    Though note that Swete's does have an apparatus as well. It will cover variations with the major uncial/majuscule LXX manuscripts.

    Difference between Swete and Rahlfs:

    • Swete is a Diplomatic edition; it is a transcription of what Swete determined to be the best manuscripts at the book level. He fills in major holes/lacunae with the next-best manuscript. He typically goes with Vaticanus, then Sinaiticus, and from there it's whatever he determines based on what's available for the hole (So Genesis is a bit of a patchwork).
    • Rahlfs and Göttingen are Eclectic editions. Editors attempt to determine the best available reading for a textual unit. Rahlfs' apparatus deals with many of the major uncial/majuscule MSS as well.

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