Roman Septuagint Explained

Italic Title:	no
Language:	Koine Greek
Country:	Papal States
Published:	1587

The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine ) 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 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] 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]} 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".

Names

This work has been given multiple names:

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

See also

• Sixtine Vulgate
• Aldine Bible

External links

Original edition:

• Book: Vetus Testamentum iuxta Septuaginta ex auctoritate Sixti V. Pont. max. editum. 1587. Ex Typographia Francisci Zannetti. el.
• Book: He palaia diatheke etc. Vetus testamentum juxta septuaginta ex auctoritate Sixti V. ed. 1587. Franciscus Zannetti. el.

Other

• Book: Vetus Testamentum secundum LXX latine redditum (Roma 1588). 1588. Georgium Ferrarium. la. Rome. Carafa. Antonio. Antonio Carafa (cardinal). (translation in Latin by Carafa of the Roman Septuagint; see the Web site: Descrizione - Vetus Testamentum LXX (1588). bibbia.filosofia.sns.it. 2019-12-27., click on "metadati" if the loading of the image fails)

Further reading

• Web site: La Septante est née en 1587, ou quelques surprises de l'édition sixtine. Bady. Guillaume. 13 February 2014. LA BIBLE D'ALEXANDRIE. fr-FR. The Septuagint was born in 1587, or: some surprises of the Sixtine edition. 2019-11-03.
• Web site: Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. CHAPTER VI. PRINTED TEXTS OF THE SEPTUAGINT.. Swete. H. B.. Henry Barclay Swete. 1914. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20191103215426/http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html. 2019-11-03. 2019-11-03.

Notes and References

1. Book: Adams, Sean A. . Studies on Baruch: Composition, Literary Relations, and Reception . 2016-05-10 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG . 9783110364279 . 143–144 . en.
2. Web site: Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek. Additional Notes. CHAPTER VI. PRINTED TEXTS OF THE SEPTUAGINT.. Swete. H. B.. Henry Barclay Swete. 1914. Christian Classics Ethereal Library. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20191103215426/http://ftp.ccel.org/ccel/swete/greekot.iii.vi.html. 3 November 2019. 2019-11-03.
3. Web site: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Septuagint Version. www.newadvent.org. 2020-04-03.
4. Web site: La Septante est née en 1587, ou quelques surprises de l'édition sixtine. Bady. Guillaume. 13 February 2014. LA BIBLE D'ALEXANDRIE. fr-FR. 2019-11-04.
5. Book: Quentin, Henri. Mémoire sur l'établissement du texte de la Vulgate. 1922. Desclée. Kelly - University of Toronto. Rome. 170. fr. 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. Henri Quentin.
6. Book: Hunwick, Andrew W. R.. https://books.google.com/books?id=2RYzAQAAQBAJ&dq=Sistine-Clementine+edition&pg=PA202. 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. 2013-03-14. BRILL. 978-90-04-24421-4. 202. en. Chapter twenty: Objections Raised to the Books of the New Testament. 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. Book: Killeen . Kevin . The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700 . Smith . Helen . Willie . Rachel Judith . 2015-08-27 . OUP Oxford . 9780191510588 . 122, 124 . en.
8. Book: Hardy, Nicholas . Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters . 2017 . Oxford University Press . 9780198716099 . 250–253, 257, 263–264 . en.
9. Book: Feingold, Mordechai . Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord: Erudition and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible . 2018-02-08 . BRILL . 9789004359055 . 281 . en.
10. Web site: 2015-11-23 . Roman Sixtine Septuagint 1587 – Greek Old Testament PDF Original Bibles . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151123072719/https://www.originalbibles.com/roman-sixtine-septuagint-1587-greek-old-testament-pdf/ . 2015-11-23 . 2019-11-03.
11. Book: Gauthier . Randall X. . Septuagint, Sages, and Scripture: Studies in Honour of Johann Cook . Kotzé . Gideon . Steyn . Gert . 2016-09-13 . BRILL . 9789004325227 . 223, 225 . en.
12. Book: Mandelbrote . Scott . Jewish Books and their Readers: Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe . Weinberg . Joanna . 2016-05-19 . BRILL . 9789004318151 . 42, 254 . en.