Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 553-571
Keywords:
Origen
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Hexapla Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Bible Manuscripts, Greek
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Polyglot Bibles History
Abstract:
An Old Testament containing perhaps six editions in parallel columns was produced by the church father Origen (d. 253/4 ce). Surviving evidence for this work is meagre: colophons, a few manuscripts with evidence of the columnar form, marginal notes in manuscripts giving readings from non-LXX editions, and testimony from some patristic writers who had some contact with Origen’s work. Currently, almost every point in the description of this work is debated, and scholars are at a point where all the sources of evidence on the Hexapla need to be examined afresh. Key questions include Origen’s purpose in creating it; possible precedents in Alexandria; the extent of the Hexapla; which editions were included beside the Old Greek; the use of text-critical symbols; the role of Pamphilus and Eusebius in later recensions of the Hexapla; the relation of the so-called Tetrapla to the Hexapla.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199665716.013.33
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