Journals - An Update

Today I completed the canonical texts of the Bible. The last of these was the Psalms including the non-canonical 151st Psalm. Also uploaded were the Letter of Jeremiah and Baruch.

This marks the beginning of work on the Apocryphal books of the Septuagint with a total of eleven (11) books remaining of the LXX.

In the process I realised that I had the Prayer of Manasseh and the 151st Psalm as separate entries. I've included Psalm 151 in the Psalter and the Prayer of M is Ode 8 of the Odes and will be uploaded early next week.

The only real issue is that this removes two numbered documents from the list and has thrown my numbering out. I've revised it on the Downloads page and will change the numbers of the PDFs themselves at a later date. Since everything from the Psalms to Revelation will now have a new number this is a fairly large job and at the moment I'd rather spend the time creating the actual journals. Any new journal file will have the correct numbering from now on, but the others are a bit wonky for the time being.

That said, the complete canonical LXX plus the first three Apocryphal books are live.

Enjoy and may they bless you with a deeper knowledge of God, his word, and Greek.

Journal Uploads - Updated - 20 May 26

New journal files are now available on the Downloads page.

I'll be updating this post from now on until I'm done rather than spamming two line posts.

*Note - These documents are getting very long, Ezekiel is 127 pages, be careful if you print them as they'll obviously use a lot of paper.

• 12 May - II and IV Kingdoms
• 13 May - I and III Kingdoms
• 14 May - Leviticus and II Chronicles
• 16 May - 1 Chronicles and Proverbs
• 18 May - Deuteronomy and Job
• 19 May - Exodus and Ezekiel
• 20 May - Numbers and Isaiah
• 21 May - Genesis and Jeremiah *NEW*

Journals for 2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) & 4 Kingdoms (2 Kings)

The PDFs are now available through the Downloads page.

Journals for Joshua and Esdras B

I've added the books of Joshua and Esdras B (Ezra/Nehemiah in the Protestant canon) to the Downloads pages.

Note that these are 66 and 58 pages each.

Big Update

 I think I've learned not to make promises. Over the past couple of years I've been studying a diploma in graphic design. I'm almost done and just finished my second last unit with one remaining. I had thought at the beginning of this last unit it was going to be fairly easy and that I could ramp up my blogging. But, as it turned out, the unit was fairly intensive and between it and my paying job it got hard.

I'm on 'holiday' now (from Uni at least) and have a couple of weeks to do stuff including for this blog.

So today I updated the last journal file I uploaded (the Theodotian Daniel), completed the Old Greek and Judges and added them to the Downloads page. I will try to do as many as I can before the workload on my next unit gets too much to spend time on blogging. There are nineteen canonical books remaining and the next three are Joshua, Esdras B (Ezra/Nehemiah), and Kings II in terms of length, so, God willing, they will be the next ones added.

As well as these I've finished the transcription of the Codex Alexandrinus Minor Prophets and Ruth and these are now available as DOCX files. I'm working on transcribing Isaiah and this is going to take a while to compete.

Daniel (Theodotian) Journal is Live

 It has been a while ... again ...

So, it's been one of those years. First plumbing issues, then the PC I was doing this work on deciding that under no circumstances will it display video, then my university course started again, and finally a major life threatening illness of a relative whose condition we are still waiting on.

 No excuses, but it did make it impossible to post for a couple of weeks. I'm still under the pump, but I can restart at least the journals.

 So, to get the ball rolling again, I've just uploaded the Theodotian translation of Daniel. I have changed the table to split Daniel's entry into the earlier Old Greek (OG) and Theodotian translations and I intend to do that one next week. It's significantly shorter than the Theodotian translation and stopped being used some time around the 4th or 5th century because Theodotian's Greek translation is far closer to the Hebrew texts we have than the Old Greek translation is.

As far as I know only the book of Daniel plus its additions have this Old Greek/Theodotian translation. It seems that other books are similar because they have major variations between versions (e.g. Isaiah in Alexandrinus versus Vaticanus and Sinaiticus). I'm not sure if there's certainty about whether, in these cases, one version is 'Old Greek' and the other 'Theodotian' or if something else is going on.

So the plan is that next week I will make and upload the OG Daniel and then, God willing, Judges and Joshua in the weeks after. 

The Esther Journal Is Live

 I've just added the Esther journal to the Downloads page.

The next three are Daniel (Theodotus), Judges, and Joshua.