The Text of the Septuagint: Its Corruptions and Their Emendation

James Barr, Peter G.P. Walters, Peter Katz, D. W. Gooding

Vetus Testamentum · 1975 · 51 citations · 0 references

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The introduction outlines the Septuagint text and its historical context. The paper aims to correct corruptions in the Septuagint by examining vowels, consonants, pronunciation devices, grammar, word formation, idiom, Hebraisms, and Hellenized Semitic words. This work is cited as reference 1.

Abstract

1. Introductory remarks 2. Vowels 3. Consonants 4. Devices for a correct understanding and pronunciation 5. Accidence and connected syntactical matter 6. Word-formation 7. Idiom and lexicon 8. Hebraisms 9. Hellenized semitic words.