Hexapla

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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:

1. Hebrew
2. Hebrew transliterated into Greek characters
3. Aquila of Sinope
4. Symmachus the Ebionite
5. Septuagint
6. 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 [1] under the auspices of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies [2], and directed by Peter J. Gentry (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), Alison G. Salvesen (Oxford University), and Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden University).

[edit] External links

• Full scan of Origen Hexapla Vol I
• Full scan of Origen Hexapla Vol II
• Catholic Encyclopedia: Hexapla
• Jewish Encyclopedia: Origen: His "Hexapla"