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Göttingen in Logos is On Sale Friday
$369.95 for the Göttingen Septuagint in Logos Bible Software. It’s on sale for International Septuagint Day, all day Friday (midnight to midnight). If you click here, it adds to your cart, and you can purchase from there–whether you already have the academic discount or not. Marked down from $700. I reviewed the Göttingen Septuagint in Logos here. … Continue reading
The Göttingen Septuagint in Logos Bible software
Göttingen. Not just a city in Germany, but a word that instills awe and fear in the hearts of every student of the Septuagint who must eventually consult the set of Old Greek editions by that name. Okay, that’s maybe a bit dramatic. I do suspect, however, that if one finds it challenging to learn … Continue reading
How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint: A Short Primer, part 2 (Apparatus)
The one who is serious about getting at the earliest attainable text of the Hebrew Bible will eventually find herself or himself face-to-face with a page like this: The Göttingen Septuagint is the largest scholarly edition of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its full title is Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis … Continue reading
How to Read and Understand the Göttingen Septuagint: A Short Primer, part 1
The Göttingen Septuagint is the cadillac of Septuagint editions. It’s the largest scholarly edition of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Its full name is Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum, published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in Göttingen, Germany. The Göttingen Septuagint has published more than 20 volumes spanning some 40 biblical books (counting … Continue reading
Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ) in Accordance 10
The next generation of the Biblia Hebraica Stutttgartensia (BHS) is the Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ). I’ve written more generally about scholarly editions of the Hebrew Bible, and have reviewed the BHS module in Accordance already. In this post I review BHQ in Accordance. Some excellent scholarly treatments of the BHQ have already appeared. Anyone serious … Continue reading
N.T. Wright: how he studies
Great stuff from N.T. Wright on how he starts his days (reading Greek and Hebrew), how he responded when an adviser told him to choose between the Church and the Academy (he chose both), and more:
BHS module in Accordance 10, reviewed
Oddly enough, the biggest challenge for me in my Hebrew exegesis classes was not to do with the Hebrew language itself. Instead, learning how to decipher the abbreviations and sigla in the “critical apparatus” of a scholarly Hebrew Bible stretched me most. I recently wrote a brief introduction to the available scholarly editions of the … Continue reading
Praising God through Academic Biblical Studies: Less Hypermodernist Objectivism, More Affect!
Why such an emphasis on wanting to get as close to the “original text” of the Bible as possible? Or, as some scholars call it, the “earliest attainable text”? Earlier this week I wrote a bit about scholarly editions of the Jewish Scriptures, both the Greek and the Hebrew. But I began asking myself today, … Continue reading
N.T. Wright on learning Greek, and a review of A Reader’s Hebrew and Greek Bible by Zondervan
I met N.T. Wright briefly in January at a worship symposium and asked him how to improve my Greek. He said, “Read the text, read the text, read the text.” He told me to really get the feel of the language. Don’t think of Greek just as a code for English; get into the Greek … Continue reading
BHS, the Göttingen Septuagint, and other critical editions: a basic orientation to what they are
Most students of the Hebrew Bible who read Hebrew know of the premier scholarly edition, the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS, here on Amazon). The BHS is now being updated by the BHQ (Q=Quinta), about which you can read more here. Both the BHS and BHQ are “diplomatic” editions of the text, which means that they … Continue reading
