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Palimpsest of the second book of the kings of Aquila

AqBurkitt refers to fragments of the literal translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek by Aquila . It is a Septuagint manuscript that is dated after the middle of the 5th century AD, but no later than the beginning of the 6th century AD.

Aquila's translation was made around AD 130.

The fragments were published by Francis Crawford Burkitt in 1898.

This manuscript contains 1 Kings 20: 7–17 and 2 Kings 23: 12–27. The manuscript is written in Koine Greek , but it contains the Tetragrammaton in archaic Hebrew characters ( ) in 1 Kings 20:13, 14; 2 kings 23,12,16,21,23,25,26,27.

Today it is kept in the Cambridge University Library.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Francis Crawford Burkitt: Fragments of the Books of Kings According to the Translation of Aquila . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1898, pp. 3-8.