This commentary on Greek Jeremiah is based on what is most certainly the best complete manuscript, namely Codex Vaticanus. The original text is presented uncorrected and the paragraphs of the manuscript itself are utilized. The translation into English on facing pages is deliberately literal so as t
Micah: A Commentary Based on Micah in Codex Vaticanus
β Scribed by W. Edward Glenny
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 257
- Series
- Septuagint Commentary
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
In this commentary W. Edward Glenny provides a careful analysis of the Greek text and literary features of Micah based on its witness in the fourth century codex Vaticanus. The commentary begins with an introduction to Micah in Vaticanus, and it contains an uncorrected copy of Micah from Vaticanus with textual notes and a literal translation of that text. In keeping with the purpose of Brillβs Septuagint Commentary Series Glenny seeks to interpret the Greek text of Micah as an artifact in its own right in order to determine how early Greek readers who were unfamiliar with the Hebrew would have understood it.
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