Septuagint Pentateuch compared to Masoretic Text
Sunday, June 21st, 2015 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manAfter spending the Torah readings in shul the other year following along in a chumash with the Masoretic text down one side of the page, and the Samaritan text along the other, with the differences highlighted in bold, I thought I'd like to do the same this coming year with the Septuagint. (Note for non-Jewish readers: by this, I refer to the original translation of the Five Books of Moses described in the Letter of Aristeas, not the later extension of the term to cover the translation of the complete Bible.)
Of course, it would have to be in translation, as the Hebrew recension from which the Septuagint was translated has long been lost (though the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to bits of it), but you'd have thought scholars would have produced such a volume as a useful tool centuries ago. However, after some time googling, I've been unable to find a side-by-side comparison of this kind.
The best I've come up with is this, but I'm not entirely sure that's what I'm after, and it's just for the Book of Genesis. Do any of you reading this know of a book which offers what I'm looking for?
Of course, it would have to be in translation, as the Hebrew recension from which the Septuagint was translated has long been lost (though the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to bits of it), but you'd have thought scholars would have produced such a volume as a useful tool centuries ago. However, after some time googling, I've been unable to find a side-by-side comparison of this kind.
The best I've come up with is this, but I'm not entirely sure that's what I'm after, and it's just for the Book of Genesis. Do any of you reading this know of a book which offers what I'm looking for?
