My research, based on all the collations of the Greek Psalter that have been available in Göttingen and have now been completely digitised as part of the Academy project “Die Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters”, has led to an extremely important insight, the consequences of which are certainly of inestimable value for the constitution of the Greek Psalter text: A careful analysis of the collation results has shown that, contrary to previous assumptions, an Origenic recension (O-group) is detectable in the primary tradition of the Greek Psalter.HT Drew Longacre at his OTTC Blog. He explains the discovery is somewhat less technical terms.[...]
The Greek text of some of Origen's homilies on the Psalms was recovered in 2012, as noted here. See there for comments on Origen's importance for the study of ancient Judaism.
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