Thomson's Translation
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Charles Thomson's Translation is a very rare direct translation of the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament. The work has an original publishing date of 1808 and took 19 years to complete. Thomson is credited with having created the work with little to no help from other scholars. It consisted of one thousand copies of four volumes each. Thompson also released a translation of the New Testament in that same year. The work did not contain the Apocrypha.
Thomson's was the first English translation of the Septuagint published, and was considered by British biblical scholars to represent the best in American scholarship.
Thomson's personal copy, containing final corrections to the manuscript, is in the Philadelphia library.
Charles Thomson was Secretary of the United States Congress from 1781-1789 and Secretary of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1781.
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- The Septuagint Bible: History
- History of English Translations (of the Bible)
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Charles Marsh Thomson
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