The Journals are All But Complete

Today I finished and uploaded the last four books to the journals - 1, 3, & 4 Maccabees, and Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom of Sirach.

There is some work to be done: 

• The existing PDFs need to be renumbered to match the table. This won't affect contents, just the file names.
• I have to check whether I've done the additions to Daniel (Susanna & Bel and the Dragon).
• Look at other books such as 1 Enoch and the Early Church Fathers (1 & 2 Clement, Polycarp, etc) to find some accurate public domain copies for further journals.

I return to my studies on Monday for my last graphic design class. This will finish in about 12 weeks and I will devote more time to this when that's done. I will fix the numbering as I go along though, so that the file names match the Downloads page table.

Remaining LXX Journals - Updated 26 May 2926

I will be updating the few remaining Septuagint journals from this post as I did with the last remaining canonical books. These are all available on the Downloads page as usual.

• 25 May - 3 Maccabees and Tobit
• 26 May - Odes and Psalms of Solomon
• 27 May - Judith, 1 Esdras, and Wisdom of Solomon *NEW*

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.