Hexapla
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Columbia Encyclopedia
Hexapla [Gr.,=sixfold], polyglot edition of the Hebrew Bible prepared by Origen (c.185-c.255). It was mainly in six columns—a Hebrew text (probably the Masoretic), a Greek transliteration of it, and four Greek versions (those of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion, and a revised version of the Septuagint). For certain sections of the Hebrew text, three further Greek versions were added. Some fragments survive. See Polyglot Bible.
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Wikipedia
Hexapla (Gr. for "sixfold") is the term for an edition of the Bible in six versions. Especially it applies to the edition of the Old Testament compiled by Origen, which placed side by side:
- Hebrew
- Hebrew transliterated into Greek characters
- Aquila of Sinope
- Symmachus the Ebionite
- Septuagint
- Theodotion
The original work is now lost, but the fragments have been collected in several editions, for example that of Frederick Field (1875).
The fragments are now being re-edited (with additional materials discovered since Field's edition) by an international group of Septuagint scholars. This work is being carried out as The Hexapla Project 
under the auspices of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies , and directed by Peter J. Gentry (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Alison G. Salvesen (Oxford University), and Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden University).
English Hexapla
Hexapla can also refer to the English Hexapla, an edition of the Greek New testament, with six English language translations (from Wiclif's in 1380 to the Authorised version in 1611) arranged in columns underneath. The English Hexapla was published in London in 1841 by Samuel Bagster and Sons.External links
- Full scan of Origen Hexapla Vol I
- Full scan of Origen Hexapla Vol II
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Hexapla
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Origen: His "Hexapla"
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