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T(I(C Talk Number 62, 2006 Newsletter of the United Bible Societies Translation Information Clearinghouse ? 2006 by the United Bible Societies Editor: Sarah Lind UBS Translation Web Pages: / — Check out the new look! Notes on the first electronic-only issue: If you intend to read the issue on-screen, here are a few suggestions. Turn on the Document Map (View, Document Map) to navigate the issue more easily. Change the View to Normal so that the lines will wrap to your screen in the font size that you prefer (use View, Zoom to increase the size). Another good on-screen reading option is View, Reading Layout. This can also be combined with the Document Map. Finally, since this issue has been late in coming, it’s a bit longer than usual, so be prepared for that if you print the issue. Contents Article: The Text of the Septuagint in the New Testament, by Harold P. Scanlin Publication Notices on Bible Translation Publication Notices on Bible Publication Notices on Translation and Language News Notes – Internet, Conferences The Text of the Septuagint in the New Testament Harold P. Scanlin The consistent best seller in the UBS Helps for Translators has been Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament by Robert G. Bratcher (2nd edition, 1984). Undoubtedly one of the attractive features of this work is the convenient presentation of an English translation of both the Masoretic Text (MT) and the Septuagint (LXX) OT text, where the two differ. UBS interest in the topic has only increased in recent years as translation work goes on in the context of Orthodox constituencies, with their commitment to the LXX. Several recent works have promoted the view that the LXX was (exclusively, or at least primarily) the OT known and used by the NT writers. See, for example, Mogens Müller, The First Bible of the Church: A Plea for the Septuagint (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) and Dale E. Heath, The Scripture of St. Paul, the Septuagint (Lake City, FL: published by the a