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.
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