7 February 2025

This is a short extension to my previous blog entry about the update of the LXX module to version 3.0.

The update required a couple of changes in the statement database. Currently, 240 statements are stored for the LXX-SBLGNT connections and 240 for the LXX-StatResGNT pairs. The differences between SBLGNT and StatResGNT are very minor, so it is sufficient to give an overview only about the half, here the 240 LXX-StatResGNT connections.

After fixing the versification issues, only 9 statements were invalid after the update, the remaining 231 statements were correct. The problematic entries were:

• Matthew 19:18, Mark 10:19, Luke 18:20, James 2:11. Here the problem was that the order of the Ten Commandments differ in the two LXX versions.
• Matthew 24:15, Mark 13:14. It turned out that Daniel 9:27 is much longer in the new version than in the old version. So a different positioning was required.
• Matthew 24:21, Mark 13:19. Here the quotation points to Daniel 12:1 which reads quite differently in the new version. But, interestingly, the new version proposes a much better match (in particular, for the quotation in Mark).
• Romans 13:9 (the first half). Instead of pointing to Exodus 20:13-15, there is a better match, Deuteronomy 5:17-19.

Another issue was that the automated test detected that the first 15 letters in Deuteronomy 27:26 is not a unique text in the Old Testament, because Judges 5:23 has exactly the same text, however, in a completely different context. (Deuteronomy 27:26 is quoted in Galatians 3:10.) Fortunately, there are other evidences that Paul pointed to Deuteronomy 27:26, namely, that two other fragments (they are both unique in the Old Testament) occur in Galatians 3:10, as shown in the graph below.

Summary: After solving some technical challenges, the contentual change during the update was very minimal, about 4% of the whole database, and in this minimal part there were just minor changes required.

Addendum on 2025-02-11: Here are the new statement diagrams for the SBLGNT and the StatResGNT modules.