Septuagint - Ruth

By Scriptural Research Institute

The book of Ruth appears to be part of a Samaritan story designed to splice the Moabites into the royal genealogy. The Book of Deuteronomy, which was likely written in Samaria, uses Moabite names of locations instead of Judahite names, indicating that a Moabite priesthood was active in Samaria before the kingdom fell to the Assyrians.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Ink Productions
• Release date: Aug 31, 2020
• ISBN: 9781989852606

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Septuagint: Ruth

Septuagint, Volume 8

SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

COPYRIGHT

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

Septuagint: Ruth

Digital edition. September 18, 2023

Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

ISBN: 978-1-989852-60-6

The Septuagint was translated into Greek and complied at the Library of Alexandria between 250 and 132 BC. The Book of Ruth was translated into Greek sometime between 250 and 210 BC.

This English translation was created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2019 through 2023, primarily from the Codex Vaticanus, although the Codex Alexandrinus was also used for reference. Additionally, the Leningrad Codex and Aleppo Codex of the Masoretic Text, th Taargum on Ruth and the Dead Sea Scroll 4QRuthᵃ was used for comparative analysis.

The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘Ruth im Feld des Boaz’ by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painted in 1828.

Note: The notes for this book include multiple ancient scripts. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the ranges for Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic, and Phoenician on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs correctly due to current limitations in Unicode.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Forward

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Septuagint Manuscripts

Alternative Translations

Dead Sea Scrolls

Available Digitally

Available in Print

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In the mid-3rd century BC, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt ordered a translation of the ancient Israelite scriptures for the Library of Alexandria, which resulted in the creation of the Septuagint. The original version, published circa 250 BC, only included the Torah, or in Greek terms, the Pentateuch. The Torah is the five books traditionally credited to Moses, circa 1500 BC: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. According to Jewish tradition, the original Torah was lost when the Babylonians destroyed the Temple of Solomon and was later rewritten by Ezra the Scribe from memory during the Second Temple period. It is generally accepted that there were several versions of the ancient Israelite scriptures before the translation of the Septuagint, mostly written in Canaanite or Aramaic, although the older sections of the Torah appear to have originated in Akkadian Cuneiform.

The first edition was followed by the second, around 225 BC which added the books of Joshua, Judges, and Ruth, and was later known as the Octateuch. This version of the Septuagint was later carried south into the Kingdom of