Hexapla (Uniform Title)

This heading represents the historic manuscript and its text tradition; editions of surviving extracts are entered under the appropriate Bible heading with Hexapla as the name of the version

Cox, C.E. Hexaplaric materials preserved in the Armenian version, c1986.

Encyc. Brit., c1978 (Origen's Hexapla)

Oxford dict. of the Christian church, 1958 (Hexapla ("six-fold"): the elaborate edition of the OT produced by Origen in which the Hebrew text in Hebrew and in Greek characters and the four Greek versions of Aquila, Symmachus, the Septuagint, and Theodotion were arranged in six parallel columns. In St. Jerome's day the manuscript was still preserved in Origen's library at Caesarea; Italian: Esaple)

New Cath. encyc., v. 2, p. 430 (under Bible: Hexapla, the body of manuscript evidence compiled by Origen at Caesarea in Palestine before 245 A.D. for comparison of the existing Greek versions of the OT with the Hebrew text current in his day. It remained available for consultation at Caesarea until ca. 600 A.D.; its final fate is unknown; many extracts from it were copied and survive)