Most people looking in on the old Greek for the Old Testament, called "Septuagint" in its first five books, will be using the Rahlfs edition. Yesterday I noted the Samuel-Saul cycle in 1-2 Reigns / Samuel, Thackeray-Barthélemy's α-ββ. Once David ben Jesse ascends the throne, which this poast will term 2 Reigns; we're in kaige territory.
Someone had gone in and fixed the Greek on its way to the good Professor-Doktor. Historically, scholars have blamed Lucian. Some ancient editors had tweaked (e.g.) the ββ elegy on Saul as well; but there we have better attestation of who did what and when. So Lucian has been deemed the earliest-attainable Greek for kaige.
Over 2019-21, some Finns came to the SBL conference and mooted that we may have witness to non-kaige readings. These show up as translations into Latin. One witness is Palimpsestus Vindobonensis, La115 for short. This covers 4:10–5:25, 10:13–11:19, 13:13–14:3, 17:12–18:9
(Timo Tekoniemi fn. 5).
Tekoniemi flagged 2R 5 vv. 4-5, 21, 24 all still ββ, then 10:19 and 11:17 which over in Greek have since gone kaige. For chapter 5 Tekoniemi found - respectively - parallels with 4QSama's chronology, taking of Philistine idols for - as MT, against ββ - destroying them, and a hint at Asherah-groves. La115's 5:4-5 and 24 readings must precede even the majority ββ but the 5:21 reading is more Lucian-ic. In 10:19, the Latin hints that David with Aram made a "covenant" (*יכרתו); everyone else says it was a "peace". In 11:17, the Latin allows for more blame upon David than the MT/Rahlfs will allow. Those will be early too.
In 2019 Tuukka Kauhanen had taken on 2 Reigns 11:11, where David's sin is more-explained. Tekoniemi aware of Kauhanen elsewhere did not use this one paper. Kauhanen for 11:11 argued for Rahlfs and Barthélemy. La115 mostly backs this.
The Lucianic text is, then, post-kaige.
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