I was wondering how much of Theodotian is still extant. Do we only have the book of Daniel? If there is more, where could I find this material. Also, how much of the other translations are still available and who are the authors of these other translations?
Thanks
There is no simple answer to this question. There is an ongoing discussion about the date of provenance of what Berthelemy in the 1950s dubbed the kaige version/recension.
You should search on kaige-Theodotion to find discussions concerning the date and character of this version.
“. . . The [KAIGE] recension may have been a precursor to the work of Aquila
and apparently served as the basis for a revision by Theodotion (thus the
term KAIGE-Theodotion).”*Karen H. Jobes & Moises Silva. Invitation to the Septuagint. Grand Rapids:
Baker 2000. Hardcover Pp. 352. USD 29.99. ISBN: 0-8010-2235-5.
The following was ripped from B-Greek archives:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2001-January/014870.html
Emanuel Tov’s “Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (p. 145)” :
"The Greek scroll of the Minor Prophets, found in Nahal Hever (1952) and
published in DJD VIII, contains an early revision of G named “kaige” by
Berthelemy… In antiquity this anonymous revision was ascribed to
Theodotion, who apparently lived at the end of the second century CE. Hence
the translational units which are ascribed to Theodotion also belong to this
revision. Consequently, the revision is now named kaige-Theodotion, though
it should be noted that its various attestations are not uniform in
character. Its presumed early date, the middle of the first century BCE,
solves the so-called proto-Theodotionic problem which has long preoccupied
scholars.“Barthelemy names the anonymous revision kaige because on of its distinctive
features is that ‘[Hebrew] gam,’ ‘also,’ is usually translated with ‘kaige,’
‘at least,’ apparently following the rabbinic hermeneutical rule that each
“gam” in the Bible refers not only to the word(s) occurring after it, but
also to one additional word…”
In addition to the above, here is Frederick Field’s 1875 collection of Hexapla fragments:
https://archive.org/stream/origenhexapla01unknuoft#page/xxxviii/mode/2up
Here is a fairly recent article by E. Tov
Emanuel Tov
Three Strange Books of the LXX:
1 Kings, Esther, and Daniel Compared with Similar
Rewritten Compositions from Qumran and Elsewhere
http://emanueltov.info/docs/varia/203.varia.three-strange-books.pdf