Tetrapla

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The Tetrapla is an ancient four-column edition of the Hebrew Bible, traditionally attributed to Origen, that presented multiple Greek versions side by side for textual comparison.

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instanceOf ancient biblical text
critical edition
polyglot Bible
aimedAt clarifying biblical text
resolving textual variants
associatedWith Alexandrian scholarship
early Christian exegesis
citedBy Epiphanius of Salamis
Eusebius of Caesarea
Jerome
contains Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Exodus
Book of Genesis
Book of Leviticus
Book of Numbers
Prophetic books
Psalms
containsVersion Aquila’s Greek translation
Septuagint
Symmachus’s Greek translation
Theodotion’s Greek translation
dateOfCreation 3rd century
editorialMethod synoptic columnar arrangement
feature Hebrew text in Greek characters
multiple Greek translations of the Old Testament
parallel Greek versions
hasCreator Origen
influenced later biblical textual criticism
patristic exegesis
language Greek
Hebrew
partOf Origen’s Hexaplaric project
linked to: Origenian corpus
placeOfOrigin Alexandria
purpose textual comparison
textual criticism
relatedWork Hexapla
Triplas
religiousTradition Christianity
Hellenistic Judaism
linked to: Hellenistic Jews
scholarlyField biblical studies
textual criticism of the Septuagint
scriptureType Hebrew Bible
linked to: Tanakh
status lost work
structure four-column layout
survivesAs citations in Church Fathers
fragments
textType Old Testament
traditionalAttribution Origen
usesScript Greek alphabet

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Hexapla relatedWork Tetrapla