In Praise of the NETS

For those of you interested in Septuagint studies and the Psalms of Solomon. The NETS is "A New Translation of the Septuagint" which contains readable and scholarly translations of the Greek O.T. It also contains a new translation of the Psalms of Solomon. I can hardly put the NETS O.T. down, its that good.

You can test drive the NETS before buying. You can download the PDFs for the NETS LXX into a folder on your hard drive and search them using Acrobat. You open Acrobat, use "search" and browse to the folder in which you downloaded the files. Acrobat will give you a document tree on the right which you can click into to go to the passages containing the word or phrase upon which you searched.

Dowloadable NETS

An interesting feature of the NETS edition of the Septuagint pictured below is it includes all the Books of the Greek O.T. which one finds in the RSV 1977 and the NRSV; additionally, the NETS includes the "Psalms of Solomon". (Click on the book image below for more info.)



For those counting, in addition to English translations of the ancient Greek versions of the 39 books of the Jewish Bible, the NETS contains what some term the "expanded Apocrypha" which was also translated for the 1977 RSV and the NRSV.

These include:

1 Esdras

2 Esdras

Tobit

Judith

Additions to the Book of Esther

Wisdom of Solomon

Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach

Baruch

Letter of Jeremiah

Prayer of Azariah

Susanna

Bel and the Dragon

Prayer of Manasseh

1 Maccabees

2 Maccabees

3 Maccabees

4 Maccabees

Psalm 151

To which the NETS adds:
The Psalms of Solomon