Greek Septuagint Bible

The Septuagint, the hardcover Greek Bible is here at your disposal!

Alfred Rahlfs' Septuagint edition was an important foundation for worldwide research from the moment it was first published in 1935. Subsequently, in 2006, this Rahlfs edition was reviewed by the renowned scholar Robert Hanhart, who corrected and expanded the text and apparatus in more than a thousand cases.

Although gradually evolving, the Septuagint is not merely dependent on the extant Hebrew part of the Holy Scriptures as we know it, since the listing of the Hebrew scriptures only acquired a definitive form in the 3rd/2nd centuries BC, and even later the section not contained in the Pentateuch and the Prophets. Thus, the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint developed in parallel through a complicated process. As a comparison of the Greek and Hebrew textual recensions shows, the Septuagint is based on an autonomous Hebrew text, partly even older than the one that was later to acquire canonical validity among the Jews as a whole. For the New Testament, the Septuagint - like the collection of the Holy Scriptures - is at least as important as the Hebrew text. To the early Greek-speaking Christians, the Septuagint was Holy Scripture, and in fact the New Testament authors based their citations from the Old Testament more on the Septuagint than on the Hebrew (and Aramaic) text.

Over the course of the parting of the ways of Christianity and Judaism, the Septuagint became established as the Holy Scripture of the Church. In fact, some translators such as Aquila or Theodotion made an effort to produce a Greek translation for Judaism in the second century. However, over time, Jewish rabbis felt a growing rejection of a Greek translation of the Torah. On the other hand, only a few scholars (Origen, Jerome) remained in the Church who were still familiar with reading the Hebrew text, which, in fact, ceased to be used in the practice of Western churches. It was the humanists of the early 16th century who recovered it for Western Christianity, especially for the churches of the Reformation. For Eastern and Byzantine Christianity, the Septuagint continues to be the definitive text of the Old Testament.

Measures: 13cm x 19.5cm x 5cm (6.3" x 1.57" x 9.05"). Hard cover.

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