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From: Maurice Robinson 
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Subject: Re: Identification of a BHS siglum
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On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Andrew Gross wrote:

> BHS uses a siglum to refer to a particular manuscript of the LXX.  
> However, I cannot seem to figure out which manuscript that is, and the 
> Prolegomena does not seem to have this siglum in its list.  The siglum is 
> a Gothic G with a rather sickly-looking theta to its right in superscript 
> (as well as a ' marker next to this letter).
> 
> An example of it may be seen in notes d and e to Daniel 7:1.  My first 
> guess was that this refers to a recension of LXX by Theodotion.  However, 
> I have no idea if Theodotion ever did a recension of the LXX.  Also, I 
> have not read much Greek outside of very modern, standardized tyepfaces.  
> Am I correct to assume that this is an alternate form of a theta?

Quite definitely this is to the Theodotian recension of Daniel, which can 
be seen more clearly in Rahlfs' edition of the LXX.

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