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- April 9th, 2021, 6:13 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Origen's Hexapla as a trigger for Greek idioms
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Origen's Hexapla as a trigger for Greek idioms
The second column of Origen's Hexapla http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/content/XXI/1/17.extract is the Old Testament in the Hebrew language written with Greek letters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapla http://tetragrammaton.org/tetrapdxj.html According to W. E. Staples http://www.jstor.org/discover/...
- May 4th, 2014, 3:56 am
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Greek idioms derived from Origen's Hexapla ?
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Greek idioms derived from Origen's Hexapla ?
The second column of Origen's Hexapla http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/content/XXI/1/17.extract is the Old Testament in the Hebrew language written with Greek letters. Most readers of this "second column" understood Greek and would occasionally see a Hebrew word or phrase whose transliteratio...