A couple questions about the Septuagint

gzt said:

The first thing I'll note is that while we have a preference for the LXX as a liturgical text, the Masoretic, as well as the Vulgate and other traditional texts, are also just fine by us. It's just that we operated in Greek, mostly, historically, and that was the Greek text.

Some people like NETS for what it is. The Orthodox Study Bible has a revision of the NKJV text to align more with LXX readings.

Good commentaries on the MT will note significant variations in the LXX text. There aren't many books dealing directly with the LXX specifically except as a critical, philological or historical exercise. Generally people actually interested in it aren't in as much need of a translation because they're going to be specialists who read Greek. But, good news, that means the origins of textual variants, which you're apparently interested in, are the sort of thing that gets discussed. The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint has more information on the textual history and transmission of the LXX than anybody could ever want to know, but it's not a devotional book or commentary.

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