Brenton English Septuagint (1851) (ENGBRE)

Overview

Brenton's English Septuagint is a translation of the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807-1862). [1] The translation was first published in 1844 by Samuel Bagster & Sons, London, without the Apocrypha; the 1851 edition added the Apocrypha and LXX Daniel with separate pagination. [2] A diglot edition pairing the Greek text with the English translation appeared around 1870. [2] Brenton's primary source text was the Codex Vaticanus, with attention to principal variant readings from the Codex Alexandrinus. [2] For over 150 years, Brenton's translation was the most widely available English rendering of the Septuagint, until the publication of the New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS) in 2007. [2]

Translation History

Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton undertook his translation of the Septuagint in the early 1840s, working from the Vatican text as his primary base. [2] The first edition was published by the London firm of Samuel Bagster & Sons in 1844, containing only the canonical Old Testament books. [2] The expanded 1851 edition incorporated the deuterocanonical books (Apocrypha) and the Septuagint version of Daniel. [2] Since 1870, Brenton's translation has been reprinted many times and remains available through digital archives such as eBible.org and the Internet Archive. [2] [3]

Language and People

English (ISO 639-3: eng) is spoken by approximately 379,000,000 people. [Glottolog: stan1293]

Publishing and Organizations

Originally published by Samuel Bagster & Sons, London (1844, 1851). [2] This digital edition is distributed by the British and Foreign Bible Society and eBible.org.

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