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), a Plymouth Brethren scholar and baronet. [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 and has remained in continuous print as the standard English Septuagint of the public domain, 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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