Have you a Septuagint?

Often attributed to, Professor Ferdinand Hitzig :

“HAVE YOU A SEPTUAGINT?” Ferdinand Hitzig, eminent biblical critic and Hebraist, used to say to his class. “If not, sell all you have, and buy one.”

Danker, Frederick W. Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study. Rev. and expanded ed. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1993.

‘Gentlemen, have you a Septuagint? If not, sell all you have, and buy one.’”¹

https://biblicalgreek.org/translate/lxx/
¹Karen H. Jobes, Invitation to the Septuagint, Baker (Grand Rapids, April 2001), 26.

the nineteenth century German biblical scholar Ferdinand Hitzig is said to have begun his class in Septuagint: “Gentlemen, have you a Septuagint? If not, sell all you have, and buy a Septuagint.

Glenny, W. Edward. “The Septuagint and Biblical Theology.” Themelios 41.2 (2016): 278.

The eminent German biblical scholar Ferdinand Hitzig is said to have begun his class in Septuagint with the remark, “Gentlemen, have you a Septuagint? If not, sell all you have, and buy a Septuagint.”

Jobes, Karen H. “When God Spoke Greek: The Place of the Greek Bible in Evangelical Scholarship.” Ed. Craig A. Evans. Bulletin for Biblical Research, Vol. 16 (2006): 236.

Interested in reading the LXX and have a least two semesters or more of Attic and/or Koine Greek? Then check out the Readers Septuagint mentioned on Abram K-J blog post on the “Words of the Word” blog: https://abramkj.com/2018/10/30/today-i-read-psalm-1-from-a-readers-septuagint/