Today is February 8, which can only mean one thing: International Septuagint Day. Happy LXX Day! Take some time to read part of the Septuagint today, in Greek or English.
Here are few more links to explore:
- A short history of Septuagint Day
- A review of Karen Jobes’s guided Septuagint reader
- If you’re flush with cash and/or need to refinance your loans for advanced textbooks (just kidding, DON’T GO THAT FAR), T. Muraoka’s new LXX Syntax looks excellent
- Why I think you need the Septuagint
- Yet more reasons from James Aitken
- An interview by William A. Ross of aforementioned Prof. Aitken
- Will Ross interviews (today!) Septuagint scholar Dr. Natalio Fernández Marcos
- First Bible of the Church: a good monograph to get started on Septuagint reading
- A fairly thorough comparative overview I wrote of Septuagint studies resources in Bible software platforms
- How to make sense of the Göttingen Septuagint: part one and part two (part three is in the purgatory… get it, purgatory? Septua–sorry.)
- A look inside the print edition of the Genesis volume of the Göttingen Septuagint
- Website for the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies
Words on the Word 
Hi Abram,
Wondering what the best LXX greek text to use these days is?
I have Swete – how is that one?
Gottingen is out of my price range.
Depends on what you are using it for. If just reading, Swete is fine. Rahlfs also is good.