The Old Testament in Greek, Volume 1: According to the Text of Codex Vaticanus, Supplemented from Other Uncial Manuscripts, with a Critical Apparatus Containing the Variants of the Chief Ancient Authorities for the Text of the Septuagint

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The Old Testament in Greek
This incomplete, early twentieth-century edition was one of the first modern attempts to bring textual criticism
to bear on the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew scriptures which originated in the third century BCE.
It is still widely consulted today. Originally issued in nine parts between 1906 and 1940, this reissue is bound in
four volumes. Volume 1 contains the books of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus. Following Swete’s smaller Septuagint
(1887–94) the running text is that of Codex Vaticanus (B) supplemented by Codex Alexandrinus (A) or another
uncial when B is defective. The edition provides an extensive critical apparatus, taking account of numerous uncial
manuscripts, fragments and palimpests, over sixty cursive manuscripts, a sample lectionary, early daughter versions
of the Septuagint, including the Armenian, Bohairic, Sahidic, Ethiopic, Old Latin, Palestinian Aramaic, and Syro-
hexapla, and a wide range of Patristic quotations.
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The Old Testament
in Greek
According to the Text of Codex Vaticanus,
Supplemented from Other Uncial Manuscripts,
with a Critical Apparatus Containing the
Variants of the Chief Ancient Authorities for
the Text of the Septuagint
Volume 1
Edited by Alan England Brooke
and Norman McLean
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THE OLD TESTAMENT
IN GREEK
ACCORDING TO THE TEXT OF CODEX VATICANUS,
SUPPLEMENTED FROM OTHER UNCIAL MANUSCRIPTS,
WITH A CRITICAL APPARATUS CONTAINING THE
VARIANTS OF THE CHIEF ANCIENT AUTHORITIES FOR
THE TEXT OF THE SEPTUAGINT
EDITED BY
ALAN ENGLAND BROOKE, D.D.
FELLOW AND DEAN OF KING'S COLLEGE, ELY PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY
AND
NORMAN MCLEAN, M.A.
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF CHRIST'S COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN ARAMAIC
VOLUME I. THE OCTATEUCH
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1917

PREFACE TO THE OCTATEUCH.
I N the Cambridge University Reporter for March 13, 1883, the announcement was made
that the Syndics of the University Press had undertaken an edition of the Septuagint
and Apocrypha with an ample apparatus criticus, intended to provide materials for the critical
determination of the text. It was proposed to give the variations of all the Greek uncial
MSS., of select Greek cursives, of the more important Ancient Versions, and of the quotations
made by Philo and the earlier and more important ecclesiastical writers. As a preliminary
step a portable text of the Septuagint and Apocrypha was published under the editorship
of Dr Swete. The text was taken from the Vatican MS., supplemented from the Alexandrine
or other MSS. where the Vatican MS. is defective. The variations of three or four other early
MSS. were given. This edition, of which the first volume, containing Genesis—iv Kingdoms,
appeared in 1887, and the third and last in 1894, has gained recognition in all countries as
the standard edition of the Old Testament in Greek. The first volume has reached its
fourth, the second its third, and the third its third edition.
When this was finished Dr Swete unfortunately felt himself obliged to relinquish the
completion of the larger task. The Syndics of the Press had never abandoned the idea
of carrying out their original plan, and at their request Dr Hort in November 1891 drew
up a scheme for the larger work, giving fuller details for the Octateuch (Genesis—Ruth),
which, he proposed, should form the first volume, and which he estimated would be about
a quarter of the complete work. Subsequently Dr Rendel Harris in 1892 made a journey
to the East to examine and report upon the MSS. of the Septuagint contained in Eastern
Libraries.
The uncial MSS. of the Octateuch known to Dr Hort were twelve, BKADEFGHKLMN,
besides a few uncial fragments published by Dr Rendel Harris, and some palimpsest leaves
of one of the Burdett-Coutts MSS. mentioned by Scrivener. It was also known that besides
the 70 cursive MSS. of the Octateuch described or used by Holmes and Parsons a considerable
number of others were extant, especially in Eastern Libraries. But he anticipated that with
the economy of using the more trustworthy of the collations made, at the end of the
eighteenth or beginning of the nineteenth century, for Holmes and Parsons, and preserved
in the Bodleian Library, and perhaps those made by Lagarde and preserved at Gottingen,
it would not be necessary to make fresh collations of more than ten or twelve representative
cursives in order to present satisfactorily the textual evidence of the extant minuscules.
With regard to the Ancient Versions he suggested the use of the Old Latin, Egyptian,
and Hexaplar Syriac as essential, emphasizing the necessity of supplementing published and
unpublished fragments of the Old Latin texts by collecting the pre-Hieronymian quotations
of the Octateuch "scattered through Latin ecclesiastical writers of the first five centuries,"
and leaving open the question of the necessity of quoting the Ethiopic, Arabic and Armenian
Versions.
He thought it would be well to limit Patristic quotations "with few exceptions" to the
first three centuries and a half, warning those who should carry out the work that " the
SEPT. (v) B