I can't seem to link the book of Nehemiah to the Septuagint Greek text.
Don Axford: I can't seem to link the book of Nehemiah to the Septuagint Greek text.
Please provide more details.
Which platform, which resources, what happens?
I am currently using my iPad and it links fine
Graham
I have logos 6 installed with the original 2005 level 3 package. I have my English Bibles on one split screen and the LXX and Hebrew on the other. For all other OT books, as far as I know, when I click on either the LXX or Hebrew the link skips to that location no problem. In the case of Nehemiah the Hebrew links ok but the LXX jumps to Esdras B or sometimes to Esther. The problem with Esdras B is I have no way of finding the actual verse I am looking for.
Don
Don Axford: In the case of Nehemiah the Hebrew links ok but the LXX jumps to Esdras B
Ezra & Nehemiah are known as "Esdras B" in the LXX
That Ezra-Nehemiah was originally a single work called Ezra is indicated by the earliest manuscripts of the LXX (Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus) that treat the two books as one, calling them Esdras B
Mark A. Throntveit, “Nehemiah, Book of,” ed. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 2000), 955.
• The Greek Septuagint titles Ezra-Nehemiah as Esdras B when the two books are combined and Esdras C when the two books are separated.
Israel P. Loken, “Nehemiah, Book of,” ed. John D. Barry et al., The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015).
Does this explain what you are seeing?
Yes but how do I link the Esdras B to the actual verse in Nehemiah? I get the entire LXX but there is no cross reference.
Strange - in my screenshot the references lined up.
Which resources are you usng, can you post a screenshot?
Looking at the table of contents for Septuaginta: Morphologically Tagged Edition (Rahlfs) (LXX.lbxlls), Esdras B' is divided into separately numbered Ezra and Nehemiah division chapters, 1-10 for Ezra and 1-13 for Nehemiah, whereas other Septuagint editions number all Esdras B sequentially, chapters 1-23, accounting for both Ezra and Nehemiah. Something is wrong once Rahlfs starts chapter numbering Esdras B' 1-13 for Nehemiah, and those chapters do not track with other Septuagint editions' chapters Esdras B 11-23 for Nehemiah, or NASB Nehemiah 1-13.
Good sleuthing -I'll bring this to the attention of Logos staff.
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