Bereshit / In Principio

Aquila of Sinope

fl. c. 130 · greek · translator

The proselyte translator of the Hebrew Bible into an extremely literal Greek, cited here by Chalcidius for Gen 1:1–2. The same man appears on the rabbinic bench as the tradent Akilas at Bereshit Rabbah 1:12.

Witnesses

VerseLemmaCruxes
Genesis 1:1Hebraei syluam generatam esse confitenturBereshit / in principio, out of nothing?, tohu va-vohu