Hexapla

Hexapla (Koine Greek: Ἑξαπλᾶ, lit.'sixfold'), also called Origenis Hexaplorum, is a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in six versions, four of them translated into Greek, preserved only in fragments. It was an immense and complex word-for-word comparison of the original Hebrew Scriptures with the Greek Septuagint translation and with other Greek translations.

The term especially and generally applies to the polyglot edition of the Old Testament compiled by the early Christian theologian and scholar Origen sometime before 240 CE.

The subsisting fragments of partial copies have been collected in several editions, that of Frederick Field (1875) being the most fundamental on the basis of Greek and Syriac testimonies. The surviving fragments are now being re-published (with additional materials discovered since Field's edition) by an international group of Septuagint scholars. This work is being carried out by the Hexapla Institute in partnership with the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, and other institutions. The members of the editorial board are: Dr. John D. Meade (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), Dr. Peter J. Gentry (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Alison G. Salvesen (Oxford University), and Dr. Bas ter Haar Romeny (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).