New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS): Electronic Tradition

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/

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Electronic Edition of NETS

This electronic edition contains the masters of the second printing of A New English Translation of the Septuagint, as published by Oxford University Press in 2009, including corrections and emendations made in the second printing (2009) and corrections and emendations made in June 2014.

Corrections and Emendations

• corrections and emendations made in second printing (2009)
• corrections and emendations made in June 2014

Preliminary Materials

• 00 Contents; Abbreviations; To the Reader of NETS, by Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright

Laws

• 01 Genesis, translated by Robert J. V. Hiebert
• 02 Exodus, tr. Larry J. Perkins
• 03 Leuitikon, tr. Dirk L. Büchner
• 04 Numbers, tr. Peter W. Flint
• 05 Deuteronomion, tr. Melvin K. H. Peters

Histories

• 06 Iesous, tr. Leonard J. Greenspoon
• 07 Judges, tr. Philip E. Satterthwaite
• 08 Routh, tr. Frederick W. Knobloch
• 09 1 Reigns, tr. Bernard A. Taylor
• 10 2 Reigns, tr. Bernard A. Taylor (OG) and Paul D. McLean (Kaige)
• 11 3 Reigns, tr. Paul D. McLean (Kaige) and Bernard A. Taylor (OG)
• 12 4 Reigns, tr. Paul D. McLean
• 13 1 Supplements, tr. S. Peter Cowe
• 14 2 Supplements, tr. S. Peter Cowe
• 15 1 Esdras, tr. R. Glenn Wooden
• 16 2 Esdras, tr. R. Glenn Wooden
• 17 Esther, tr. Karen H. Jobes
• 18 Ioudith, tr. Cameron Boyd-Taylor
• 19 Tobit, tr. Alexander A. Di Lella
• 20 1 Makkabees, tr. George Themelis Zervos
• 21 2 Makkabees, tr. Joachim Schaper
• 22 3 Makkabees, tr. Cameron Boyd-Taylor
• 23 4 Makkabees, tr. Stephen Westerholm

Poetic Books

• 24 Psalms (and Prayer of Manasses), tr. Albert Pietersma
• 25 Proverbs, tr. Johann Cook
• 26 Ecclesiast, tr. Peter J. Gentry
• 27 Song of Songs, tr. Jay C. Treat
• 28 Iob, tr. Claude E. Cox
• 29 Wisdom of Salomon, tr. Michael A. Knibb
• 30 Sirach, tr. Benjamin G. Wright
• 31 Psalms of Salomon, tr. Kenneth Atkinson

Prophecies

• 32 The Twelve Prophets, tr. George E. Howard
• 33 Esaias, tr. Moisés Silva
• 34 Ieremias (with Excursus on Bisectioning Ieremias), tr. Albert Pietersma and Marc Saunders
• 35 Barouch, tr. Tony S. L. Michael
• 36 Lamentations, tr. Peter J. Gentry
• 37 Letter of Ieremias, tr. Benjamin G. Wright
• 38 Iezekiel, tr. Noel Hubler
• 39 Sousanna, tr. R. Timothy McLay
• 40 Daniel, tr. R. Timothy McLay
• 41 Bel and the Dragon, tr. R. Timothy McLay

Using These Files

The files of this electronic edition are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. The current version of the Adobe Reader is available at no charge.

You are free to download these files for your personal, scholarly purposes. They may not be sold or redistributed. For details, refer to the copyright information.

These files are protected: you cannot copy from them or print them. However, they are easy to search within Adobe Reader.

At this time, Oxford University Press does not have a separate electronic edition of NETS. However, NETS is currently available as a module in Accordance, and we expect that other electronic Bible databases will also license it from the Press in the future.

We have provided a list of corrections and emendations incorporated into the second printing of 2009 and a list of corrections and emendations made in June 2014. These lists are also in PDF format.

Users of these files are encouraged to report any errata to the editors.

• Albert Pietersma
• Benjamin Wright

Searches

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Copyright

All translations and introductions are protected by copyright. A detailed copyright notice is included with each file.

Critical Editions of the Old Greek Texts

The Executive Committee of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies offers recommendations regarding the best available critical editions of Septuagint or Old Greek texts for use in scholarly discussion and development, including electronically based research.

About NETS

NETS is a new translation of the Greek Jewish Scriptures, entitled A New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included Under that Title. For more information on this project, see the main NETS webpage.