Roman Septuagint

Roman Septuagint
Title page of the Roman (Sixtine) Septuagint
CountryPapal States
LanguageKoine Greek
Published1587

The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine LXX) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the Septuagint published in 1587, and commissioned by Pope Sixtus V.[1]

The printing of the book "was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587". Hence why a second I on the publication date of the book "has been added in many copies with the pen".[2]

This edition is based on the Codex Vaticanus.[3][4] The text of this edition of the Septuagint became mostly the standard for all the later editions of the Septuagint for three centuries after its publication, until Rahlf published his edition of the Septuagint which became the new standard.[4]

Antonio Carafa directed the work on the edition of the Roman Septuagint.[5][6][3] The Roman Septuagint was published "by the authority of Sixtus V, to assist the revisers who were preparing the Latin Vulgate edition ordered by the Council of Trent".[3]

Names

This work has been given multiple names:

  • Roman Septuagint[7]
  • Sixtine Septuagint[8][9] (Sixtine LXX[1])
  • Roman Sixtine Septuagint[10]
  • Roman (Sixtine) Septuagint[11]
  • Roman edition of the Septuagint[12]
  • Vetus Testamentum Iuxta Septuaginta[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Adams, Sean A. (2016-05-10). Studies on Baruch: Composition, Literary Relations, and Reception. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. pp. 143–144. ISBN 9783110364279.
  2. ^ Swete, H. B. (1914). "Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. CHAPTER VI. PRINTED TEXTS OF THE SEPTUAGINT". Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  3. ^ a b c "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Septuagint Version". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
  4. ^ a b Bady, Guillaume (13 February 2014). "La Septante est née en 1587, ou quelques surprises de l'édition sixtine". LA BIBLE D'ALEXANDRIE (in French). Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  5. ^ Quentin, Henri (1922). "Chapitre sixième - Les commissions pontificales du concilde de Trente à Sixte-Quint" [Chapter Six - The Pontifical Committees from the Council of Trent to Sixtus Quintus]. Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate (in French). Kelly - University of Toronto. Rome: Desclée. p. 170.
  6. ^ Hunwick, Andrew W. R. (2013-03-14). "Chapter twenty: Objections Raised to the Books of the New Testament". Richard Simon Critical History of the Text of the New Testament: wherein is Established the Truth of the Acts on which the Christian Religion is Based. BRILL. p. 202. ISBN 978-90-04-24421-4. Vetus Testamentum juxta Septuaginta ex auctoritate Sixti V. pont. max. editum (Rome: Zannetti, 1586 [BnF A-52]), the "Roman" or "Sixtine" Septuagint, under the direction of cardinal Antonio Carafa (1538-1591).
  7. ^ Killeen, Kevin; Smith, Helen; Willie, Rachel Judith (2015-08-27). The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700. OUP Oxford. pp. 122, 124. ISBN 9780191510588.
  8. ^ Hardy, Nicholas (2017). Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters. Oxford University Press. pp. 250–253, 257, 263–264. ISBN 9780198716099.
  9. ^ Feingold, Mordechai (2018-02-08). Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord: Erudition and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible. BRILL. p. 281. ISBN 9789004359055.
  10. ^ "Roman Sixtine Septuagint 1587 – Greek Old Testament PDF | Original Bibles". 2015-11-23. Archived from the original on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
  11. ^ Gauthier, Randall X.; Kotzé, Gideon; Steyn, Gert (2016-09-13). Septuagint, Sages, and Scripture: Studies in Honour of Johann Cook. BRILL. pp. 223, 225. ISBN 9789004325227.
  12. ^ a b Mandelbrote, Scott; Weinberg, Joanna (2016-05-19). Jewish Books and their Readers: Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe. BRILL. pp. 42, 254. ISBN 9789004318151.

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