Hi
what is the Best greek Septuaginta to Work with Logos?
Sascha
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).
"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:
thanks for help :-)
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).
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:
thanks Rick [Y]
