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monideas 3 hours ago

The Septuagint was only the Torah (five Books of Moses). It wasn’t until much later that Greek translations of the rest of the Hebrew Bible were done. These are often referred to as the Septuagint but that is not accurate, these later translations were not done by some official group of 70 Rabbis.

geocar 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Okay, wait a minute.

There were zero Hebrew Bibles at that time.

The Bologna scroll is found seventy(ish) times in greek and hebrew (and other languages) in the Qumran caves, along with a bunch of other stuff. Each of those times is a greek-literate persons' "bible". And they're all a little different. And they have their own notes in them too. They were probably paid to do it. At least some of them said they were rabbis.

Biblical scholars don't consider "The Septuagint" (Egyptian) to be any single translation and why they use the term "Majority Text" and stuff like that, to justify grouping all that stuff into "their" New Testaments'.

If it were possibly so simple as that, there probably wouldn't be so many forms of christianity.

monideas 2 hours ago | parent [-]

By Hebrew Bible I mean the texts that would later comprise the settled canon of Tanakh. I don’t mean that they had a JPS Tanakh from Barnes and Noble in hand.

stevoski 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

My understand of the article is that it makes exactly the same point, but in more detail.

superze 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Tell me you are Jewish without telling me.