Theodotion’s second-century Greek Old Testament revision balanced fidelity and readability, shaping both Jewish and Christian scriptural traditions.
Theodotion (θ): His Role in Old Testament Textual Transmission
Symmachus (σ): His Role in Old Testament Textual Transmission and Translation
Symmachus, a Samaritan convert to Judaism, produced a refined Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures at the end of the first century C.E.
Aquila (Siglum α): The Literalist Greek Translator of the Old Testament
Aquila’s literal Greek Old Testament (ca. 150 C.E.) reflects Jewish fidelity to Hebrew, aiding exegesis and preserving variants for textual critics.
The Kaige Revision and Its Role in Old Testament Textual History
The Kaige revision was a Jewish reworking of the Septuagint, aligning it with the Hebrew text and preserving the Divine Name in Paleo-Hebrew.
Ancient Translations of the Old Testament Beyond Greek: Aramaic Targums, Syriac Peshitta, Vulgate, and Other Versions
Ancient versions beyond Greek—Targums, Peshitta, Vulgate—tested against the Masoretic Text to confirm and clarify the original Hebrew wording with rigor.
Ancient Greek Translations of the Old Testament: History, Origin, Character, and Scholarly Usefulness
Greek translations of the Old Testament—LXX, Jewish revisions, Hexapla, and major codices—serve the Hebrew text and aid the restoration of the original words.
The Septuagint—Useful in the Past and the Present: How a Greek Translation Served God’s People Then and Now
Why a Greek Old Testament was made, how Jesus’ era used it, where it helps restore earlier Hebrew, and how it still serves translation and preaching today.
A Bible Translation That Changed the World: Why the Septuagint Was Made, How It Spread Scripture, and What It Still Teaches
How the Septuagint carried Hebrew Scripture into Greek, prepared hearers for the Gospel, aids textual restoration, and still trains faithful translation.
Coptic Manuscript of Jeremiah: A Significant Textual Witness to Jeremiah 21:14–22:20 (LXX)
Newly identified Coptic Jeremiah fragment (Jer. 21:14–22:20) offers critical LXX insight, enriching Sahidic tradition and aiding OT textual reconstruction.
Our Forerunners in Septuagint Studies: Grabe, Lowth, Tischendorf, de Lagarde, Swete, Rahlfs, Thackeray, Smend, Wevers, and Ziegler
From Grabe to Göttingen, meet the editors who made the Septuagint usable—establishing text, mapping recensions, and modeling sober, faith-serving method.
