Volume 1 of The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, edited by the Cambridge scholar Henry Barclay Swete (1835–1917), was first published in 1887. It contains the first twelve books of the Greek Old Testament: Genesis to 2 Kings. Swete set an important precedent for later editors by using an actual manuscript text as the edition's base. He selected the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, which is still widely considered to contain the earliest and most valuable form of the Septuagint text; many later editors have followed suit. Where Vaticanus was defective the text was supplemented by the fifth-century Alexandrinus. The critical apparatus gives the readings of other important ancient manuscripts: Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Cottonianus Geneseos, Bodleianus Geneseos, and Ambrosianus. The edition's convenient size and ease of use assured its place as one of the most widely used versions of the Septuagint, and it is still consulted today.

The Old Testament in Greek According to the Septuagint, Volume 1 Part 2, Genesis-IV Kings

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Cambridge library collection, Place of publication not identified, Cambridge, 1887

Cambridge library collection. Religion, Cambridge, 1887

Cambridge library collection, Cambridge, 2010

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2013

Henry Barclay Swete (1835-1917) published Volume 1 of his monumental Septuagint edition in 1887. It contains the first twelve books of the Greek Old Testament: Genesis to 2 Kings. The text is based on the fourth-century Codex Vaticanus, with a critical apparatus giving variants from other ancient manuscripts.

2025-03-18