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MP4 VIDEO Doug Smith on Gen 5 & 11 - Origins 2026.mp4"Something Doesn’t Add Up: Accounting for Overlooked Variables for Studying the Text and Translation of the Genesis 5 & 11 Chronogenealogies"
Presented by Douglas K. Smith, Jr., PhD, July 14, 2026, for the Origins 2026 Conference, a collaborative event with the Creation Theology Society, Creation Biology Society, and Creation Geology Society
Google Drive Folder where pre-recorded video presentation and PDF of the Powerpoint Slides are available
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(Not a complete bibliography on the topic; some starting points; work in progress with more to be added later)
P. J. Gentry on textual criticism (JETS and SBJT articles)
Gentry, Peter J. “Old Greek and Later Revisors: Can We Always Distinguish Them?” In Scripture in Transition: Essays on Septuagint, Hebrew Bible, and Dead Sea Scrolls in Honour of Raija Sollamo, edited by Anssi Voitila and Jutta Jokiranta, 301–27. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 126. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
Text and Canon Institute - textandcanon.org - articles, videos
Overviews/intros to LXX: G. Lanier/W. Ross, N. Fernández Marcos, K. Jobes/M. Silva, E. Gallagher
Lanier and Ross, The Septuagint: What It Is and Why It Matters (Crossway, 2021)
See also their edited volume The Authority of the Septuagint, which explores different views about how the Greek Old Testament functioned and was transmitted/transformed
Fernández Marcos, Natalio. The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible. Translated by Wilfred G. E. Watson. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
Edmon L. Gallagher, “A Patristic-Historical Approach,” in The Authority of the Septuagint: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Approaches, ed. William A. Ross and Gregory R. Lanier (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2025), 91–111.
Access latest scholarly editions: BHQ, Göttingen
Tal, Abraham, ed. Genesis: Critical Apparatus and Notes. Quinta Editione Cum Apparatu Critico Novis Curis Elaborato. Vol. 1. Biblia Hebraica Quinta. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2015.
Wevers, John W., ed. Genesis. Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis Editum. Vol. I. Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1974.
Hexapla: F. Field + P. Chia on Hexaplaric Fragments of Genesis
Field, F., ed. Origen: Hexapla. Vol. 1. Oxford, 1875. https://archive.org/details/origenhexapla01unknuoft
Chia, Philip Suciadi. “A Critical Edition of the Hexaplaric Fragments of Genesis.” PhD diss., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2021, esp. 163–79, 256–64.
Hexapla Institute - hexapla.org
The Significance of Origen’s Hexapla for Biblical and Theological Studies by JOHN D. MEADE https://www.mbts.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/MJT-SP-26-final-1.pdf
https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/58993/the-forerunners-and-heirs-of-origen-s-hexapla
Technical commentaries by Jewish & Christian authors (U. Cassuto, N. Sarna, K. Mathews, G. Wenham, etc.); use all resources w/ discernment!
Read Genesis LXX experts: J. W. Wevers, S. Brayford, R. Hiebert
Wevers at Archive.org (free borrow w account) Gen 5 (https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-BYU-052/page/68/mode/2up ) on Gen 11 (https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-BYU-052/page/152/mode/2up ) or at Google Play (free preview of Gen 5 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=yNqSDwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA69 and Gen 11 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=yNqSDwAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PA151 ); Wevers, John W. “The Interpretative Character and Significance of the Septuagint Version.” In Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation: Volume I: From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (Until 1300): Part 1: Antiquity, edited by Magne Sæbø, 84–107. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1996.
Brayford, Susan A. Genesis: Commentary. Edited by Stanley E. Porter, Hess, Richard S., and Jarick, John. Septuagint Commentary Series. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Hiebert, Robert J. V. “Translation Technique in the Septuagint of Genesis and Its Implications for the NETS Version.” Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies 33 (2000): 76–93.
Hiebert, Robert J. V. “The Hermeneutics of Translation in the Septuagint of Genesis.” In Septuagint Research: Issues and Challenges in the Study of the Greek Jewish Scriptures, edited by Wolfgang Kraus and R. Glenn Wooden, 83–103. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.
Hiebert, Robert J. V. “Textual and Translation Issues in Greek Genesis.” In The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation, edited by Craig A. Evans, Joel N. Lohr, and Petersen, 405–26. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum ; Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature, 152. volume 6. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2012.
Hiebert, Robert J. V. “Linguistic Interference in Septuagint Genesis.” Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies 55 (2022): 55–73.
New English Translation of the Septuagint (NETS) introductions
Hiebert, Robert J. V. “To the Reader of Genesis.” In New English Translation of the Septuagint Notes, edited by Albert Pietersma and Benjamin G. Wright, 1–6. Winona Lake, Indiana: International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, 2007. https://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/nets/edition/01-gen-nets.pdf
Handbook articles: Oxford and T&T Clark
H. B. Smith, Jr. and J. Sexton and interlocutors, esp. A. Steinmann
Henry B. Smith Jr., “From Adam to Abraham: An Update on the Genesis 5 and 11 Research Project,” Associates for Biblical Research 29, no. 2 (April 2017): 42-49; Henry B. Smith Jr., “MT, SP, or LXX? Deciphering a Chronological and Textual Conundrum in Genesis 5,” Biblical and Spade 31, no. 3 (2018): 18-27; Henry B. Smith Jr., “The Case for the Septuagint’s Chronology in Genesis 5 and 11,” in Proceedings of the Eight International Conference of Creationism. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship, (2018): 117-32.
Steinmann:
Peter J Williams on Gen 5 / 11 https://dl0.creation.com/articles/p027/c02771/j12_1_98-106.pdf
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