The Göttingen Septuagint is the premier critical-scholarly edition of the Septuagint. If you've ever seen or used it, you know it can be intimidating. Fortunately, Abram K-J (Words on the Word blog) has created a primer in two parts on how to read and understand the...
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Some Book Reviews of Note for Biblical Studies
The online Journal of Hebrew Scriptures announced a few new book reviews today. Some are noteworthy for material covered on this blog: Michael Hundley, Keeping Heaven on Earth: Safeguarding the Divine Presence in the Priestly Tabernacle (FAT II, 50; Tübingen: Mohr...
More Online Resources for Vaccination Against PaleoBabble
There's been a spate of resources that have popped up online in recent days for excellent resources to study the ancient world. Some of these resources have been around a while, but have gotten some recent attention and traffic on various blogs and news sites. Here...
New Septuagint Greek-English Interlinear Now COMPLETE
All of us here at Logos (especially Rick Brannan) are thrilled to announce that there is finally a complete Septuagint Greek-English interlinear available to everyone interested in Septuagint research. It took a bit longer than expected, but it's done! If you know...
Paul and Jesus: Their Use of the Old Testament
I will return to Amos 9 in the next post, but I came across these two articles on the web recently and wanted to make them part of the discussion / your consideration. One is on Paul's use of the OT (it draws on the next article) and the other is on how Jesus used the...
The OT Cited in the NT: A First Look at Amos 9:11-12
Amos 9:11-12 will be our next passage. I am only giving you the reference here because I want you to read it and answer in your own mind the following questions after you do so. As an Israelite contemporary to the time of Amos, when you read Amos 9:11-12 ... 1. What...
The OT Cited in the NT: Peter’s (Luke’s) Use of Psalm 16:8-11 in Acts 2:24-28
I've decided to open with this oft-debated passage. It's a good one, in that it introduces the sorts of issues that make this phenomenon important. Here is a PDF of the primary texts involved, along with commentary from Beale and Carson's edited commentary on the use...
English-Greek Reverse Interlinear APOCRYPHA
Yes, that's right - another digital first from Logos. This item just went on prepub. More specifically, the interlinear is made from Rahlf's LXX Greek and the NRSV English of the Apocryphal books. The Greek has tagged morphology. Read all about it at the link above,...
A Head Start on the Septuagint Issue
After a few more posts on Genesis and creation we'll jump into the LXX, as the minority requested. I've decided to assign some reading for that, so everyone is somewhat on the same page by the time we get there. Here are 33 pages from Jennifer Dines' excellent...
Get the Entire Gottingen Septaugint for 90 Percent Off
That's right. No kidding. For those who know don't know what the Göttingen LXX is, it's the premier critical text edition of the Septuagint. There are 24 volumes in print, each of which go for $150 or more in print. That's $3600 for the set. Plus it's in electronic...
Why Use the Septuagint?
I found this on the Logos blog today. It's something I wrote for the Logos blog in 2007, and I don't think I ever posted it here. Forgot I even wrote it (I'm doing some LXX thinking today at work so I found it via Google!). Here's the short article -- it addresses...
Nimrod Mythology
Spend any time on the internet (especially Christian sites) and you're bound to run into a pile of PaleoBabble about Nimrod, a character mentioned only in Genesis 10:8-9; 1 Chron. 1:10 (repeats Genesis 10:8); and Micah 5:6 (reference to the "land of Nimrod"). Here are...
Hobbins on the Canon, Part 3: An Excerpt
I may post more from John Hobbins' third installment later. I'll keep it here to this one extended excerpt. I think you'll find what John is angling toward interesting: Sooner or later the pluriformity of the tradition that eventually came to be included in a variety...
Hebrews 10:5-7 and Its Quotation of Psalm 40:6-8 (LXX 39:6-8): Another Very Tough Road to Hoe for the Traditional Inspiration View
Someone asked me about this passage this morning, and I thought it was another great illustration of why we need to affirm freedom on the part of the biblical writers, as opposed to God dictating the words to them (audibly or through some sort of mysterious...
Another Consideration for Inerrancy: The NT Author’s Quotation of (or Alteration of) the OT
In three previous posts I sketched out three principles I think are important to keep in mind for an accurate and honest statement of inerrancy. I list them here for review: 1. Taking the Bible on its own terms. 2. The idea of divine accommodation. 3. Distinguishing...