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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Predicate Object
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 NERFINISHED
Eusebius of Caesarea NERFINISHED
Jerome NERFINISHED
contains Book of Deuteronomy NERFINISHED
Book of Exodus NERFINISHED
Book of Genesis NERFINISHED
Book of Leviticus NERFINISHED
Book of Numbers NERFINISHED
Prophetic books
Psalms NERFINISHED
containsVersion Aquila’s Greek translation
Septuagint NERFINISHED
Symmachus’s Greek translation
Theodotion’s Greek translation NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
influenced later biblical textual criticism
patristic exegesis
language Greek
Hebrew
partOf Origen’s Hexaplaric project NERFINISHED
placeOfOrigin Alexandria NERFINISHED
purpose textual comparison
textual criticism
relatedWork Hexapla NERFINISHED
Triplas NERFINISHED
religiousTradition Christianity
Hellenistic Judaism NERFINISHED
scholarlyField biblical studies
textual criticism of the Septuagint
scriptureType Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED
status lost work
structure four-column layout
survivesAs citations in Church Fathers
fragments
textType Old Testament NERFINISHED
traditionalAttribution Origen NERFINISHED
usesScript Greek alphabet

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Hexapla relatedWork Tetrapla