1 Guthrie, G. H., ‘Hebrews’ Use of the Old Testament: Recent Trends in Research’, Currents in Biblical Research 1.2 (2003) 271–94 (271–2).
2 Caird, G. B., ‘The Exegetical Method of the Epistle to the Hebrews’, CJT 5.1 (1959) 44–51.
3 Thomas, K. J., ‘The Old Testament Citations in Hebrews’, NTS 11 (1964–65) 303–25.
4 Howard, G., ‘Hebrews and the Old Testament Quotations’, Nov.T. 10 (1968) 203–16.
5 McCullough, J. C., ‘The Old Testament Quotations in Hebrews’, NTS 29 (1980) 363–79.
6 Cadwallader, A. H., ‘The Correction of the Text of Hebrews Towards the LXX’, Nov.T. 34.3 (1992) 257–92.
7 Hiebert, R. J. V., The ‘Syro-Hexaplaric’ Psalter (Atlanta: Scholars, 1989) 184.
8 For further details see Dines, J. M., The Septuagint (London: T&T Clark, 2004) 4–5; Tov, E., The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint (Leiden: Brill, 1999) 9; and Ulrich, E., The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans; Leiden: Brill, 1999) 8–9.
9 See the introductions to the Lucianic recension in Dines, Septuagint, 103–6, and in Marcos, N. Fernández, The Septuagint in Context: Introduction to the Greek Versions of the Bible (Leiden: Brill, 2000) 223–36.
10 Pietersma, A., ‘The Present State of the Critical Text of the Greek Psalter’, Der Septuaginta-Psalter und seine Tochterübersetzungen (ed. Aejmelaeus, A. and Quast, U.; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000) 12–32 (21). Peter Flint has, largely on the basis of his extensive study of the Qumran Psalms Scroll (11QPsa), likewise criticised Rahlfs for ‘disregarding Lucianic manuscripts almost completely’ (P. Flint, ‘Variant Readings of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls Against the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint Psalter’, Der Septuaginta-Psalter [ed. Aejmelaeus and Quast] 337–65 [338]; cf. Flint, P., The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms [Leiden: Brill, 1997] 236).
11 McLay, R. T., The Use of the Septuagint in New Testament Research (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003).
12 Menken, M. J. J., Old Testament Quotations in the Fourth Gospel: Studies in Textual Form (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1996).
13 G. J. Steyn has been engaged in an investigation of the Vorlage of several of the explicit OT citations in Hebrews over a number of years. See, e.g., his: ‘A Quest for the Vorlage of the “Song of Moses” (Deut 32) Quotations in Hebrews’, Neotestamentica 34.2 (2000) 263–72; ‘Psalm 2 in Hebrews’, Neotestamentica 37.2 (2003) 262–81; ‘The Vorlage of Psalm 45:6–7 (44:7–8) in Hebrews 1:8–9’, Hervormde Teologiese Studies 60.3 (2004) 1085–103; and ‘The Occurrence of Ps 118(117): 6 in Heb 13:6: Possible Liturgical Origins’, Neotestamentica 40.1 (2006) 119–34.
14 For a fuller study of the exegesis of the OT citations in Hebrews, see Docherty, S., The Use of the Old Testament in Hebrews: A Case Study in Early Jewish Bible Interpretation (WUNT II. 260; Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2009).
15 Flint, ‘Variant Readings’, 338; cf. n. 13 above. See also E. Ulrich, ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls and their Implications for an Edition of the Septuagint Psalter’, Der Septuaginta-Psalter (ed. Aejmelaeus and Quast) 323–36.
16 See his ‘Present State’, 13–21.
17 Rahlfs, A., ed., Psalmi cum Odis (Septuaginta X; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1931) 258.
18 Attridge, H. W., A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hermeneia; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989) 57.
19 Katz, P., The Text of the Septuagint: Its Corruptions and their Emendation (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1973) 161.
20 Cadwallader, ‘Correction’, 291.
21 Spicq, C., L’Épître aux Hébreux (2 vols.; Paris: Lecoffre, 1952–53) 2.18.
22 Rahlfs, Psalmi cum Odis, 152.
23 See, e.g., Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 305; McCullough, ‘Old Testament Quotations’, 369; and Steyn, ‘The Vorlage of Psalm 45:6–7’, 1100.
24 This is emphasised by both McCullough, ‘Old Testament Quotations’, 369, and Ellingworth, P., The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Commentary on the Greek Text (NIGTC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993) 122.
25 Ellingworth, Epistle to the Hebrews, 122: ‘The MT underlying the first line is obscure and probably corrupt…’
26 Cockerill, G. L., ‘Hebrews 1:6: Source and Significance’, Bull.Bib.Res. 9 (1999) 51–64.
27 McLay, R. T., ‘Biblical Texts and the Scriptures for the New Testament Church’, Hearing the Old Testament in the New Testament (ed. Porter, S. E.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006) 36–58.
28 See, e.g., Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 304; Cockerill, ‘Hebrews 1:6’; McLay, ‘Biblical Texts’; Ellingworth, Epistle to the Hebrews, 119; Braun, H., An die Hebräer (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1984) 37; Koester, C. R., Hebrews (AB 36; New York: Doubleday, 2001) 193.
29 On this Qumran text and its relationship to the reading in Hebrews, see, e.g., Attridge, Commentary on Hebrews, 57.
30 Wevers, J. W., ed., Deuteronomium (Septuaginta III.2; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1977) 350.
31 Ellingworth, Epistle to the Hebrews, 119. There is also some discussion of these alternative readings in Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 304.
32 McLay, ‘Biblical Texts’, 55.
33 Steyn, ‘Vorlage of the “Song of Moses” Quotations’, 266–8.
34 Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 305.
35 See the textual apparatus in Rahlfs, Psalmi cum Odis, 255.
36 Attridge, Commentary on Hebrews, 61.
37 See Rahlfs, Psalmi cum Odis, 255.
38 This is the view of, e.g., Schröger, F., Der Verfasser des Hebräerbriefes als Schriftausleger (Regensburg: Pustet, 1968) 67, and Ellingworth, Epistle to the Hebrews, 129.
39 E.g. Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 305, and Attridge, Commentary on Hebrews, 61.
40 McCullough, ‘Old Testament Quotations’, 372.
41 Flint, ‘Variant Readings’, 351.
42 This point is made by Dines, The Septuagint, 142.
43 Dines, The Septuagint, 141. The pioneering work of Peter Katz should not, however, be overlooked as a demonstration of what could be achieved by further substantial studies in this area; see Katz, P., Philo's Bible: The Aberrant Text of Bible Quotations in Some Philonic Writings and its Place in the Textual History of the Greek Bible (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1950).
44 Fernández Marcos, Septuagint in Context, 258; cf. Dines, The Septuagint, 149.
45 As recognised by, e.g., Dines, The Septuagint, 149–51, and Fernández Marcos, Septuagint in Context, 258–9.
46 Thomas, ‘Old Testament Citations’, 320.
47 McCullough, ‘Old Testament Quotations’.
48 For a recent and extremely enlightening study of the exegetical techniques and principles of the rabbinic interpreters, see Samely, A., Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah (Oxford: Oxford University, 2002).
49 On attitudes to the Hebrew scriptures evident in the targumim, see Samely, A., The Interpretation of Speech in the Pentateuch Targums: A Study of Method and Presentation in Targumic Exegesis (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1992).
50 This point is well made by commentators such as George Brooke and Timothy Lim, despite the all-too-pervasive assumption that the pesher genre takes great liberties with the scriptural text in applying it to the life of the interpreters’ community. See in particular Brooke, G. J., ‘Reading the Plain Meaning of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls’, Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible (ed. Brooke, G. J.; JSS Supplement 11; Oxford: Oxford University, 2000) 67–90. See also Lim, T. H., Holy Scripture in the Qumran Commentaries and Pauline Letters (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) 49–65.
51 McLay, ‘Biblical Texts’, 55.
52 Cadwallader's important study of this point (‘Correction’) has been mentioned above, and Attridge (Commentary on Hebrews) is also alert to this possibility.
