Editing Hexapla

'''''Hexapla''''' (Ἑξαπλά: [[Greek language|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 of Alexandria]], sometime before the year 240, which placed side by side:

:1.[[Hebrew language|Hebrew]]
:2.[[Secunda (Hexapla)|Secunda]] 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 (scholar)|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 [http://www.hexapla.org] under the auspices of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ioscs/], 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 [[Wycliffe]]'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==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/origenhexapla01unknuoft Full scan of Origen of Alexandria, Hexapla Vol I]
*[http://www.archive.org/details/origenhexapla02unknuoft Full scan of Origen of Alexandria, Hexapla Vol II]
*[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07316a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia: Hexapla]
*[http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=128&letter=O&search=Hexapla#374 Jewish Encyclopedia: Origen: His "Hexapla"]


[[Category:3rd-century Christian texts]]
[[Category:Lost works]]
[[Category:Bible versions and translations]]

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