NuBerea/lxx-analysis

NuBerea Research: LXX Translation-Technique Noise Model

Quantitative study of Septuagint translation technique: verse-by-verse measurements of where the ancient Greek translation (LXX) diverges from the Hebrew Masoretic Text, with book-level statistical summaries. The material lets researchers distinguish a translator's habitual working style — free versus literal rendering — from genuine textual anomalies worth close scholarly attention, putting on a measurable footing what LXX scholarship (Tov, Pietersma, Joosten) has long described qualitatively.

The dataset covers the Hebrew Bible books shared between the LXX and the MT and is part of the NuBerea corpus estate of biblical and patristic datasets. The full specification (schemas, per-config documentation, and methodology) is available in the gated SPEC accompanying this dataset.

Attribution

This dataset derives from the following upstream sources, which require attribution:

Source	License
NuBerea/lxx-wlc-bridge	CC BY 4.0
NuBerea/crosswire-greekhebrew	CC BY 4.0
NuBerea/stepbible (TBESG/TBESH lexicons, STEPBible / Tyndale House)	CC BY 4.0

Scholarly References

• Tov, E. (2015). The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research, 3rd ed. Eisenbrauns.
• Pietersma, A. & Wright, B. G. (eds.) (2007). A New English Translation of the Septuagint. Oxford University Press.
• Joosten, J. (2012). The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew. Simor.

NuBerea project. Licensed CC BY 4.0.