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To: Honorary Serb

So which is it? There was a whole Jewish Septuagint long before the arrival of Christianity, or, the Jewish canon wasn’t fixed until after Christianity arrived (so they knew which books to include in the Septuagint)?

The original Septuagint was of the Five Books of Moses only, and easily predates subsequent unofficial translations of some Prophets and Writings. Where would one find a complete copy of the original Septuagint, whatever it was?


51 posted on 11/07/2011 11:51:02 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

The entire Septuagint was pre-Christian, and the New Testament quotes from it, including Pentateuch, Psalms, Prophets, etc. Philo and Josephus (both Jews, Philo died before Christ was born) held it in great respect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint_manuscripts

Having entire ancient manuscripts in one’s hands that date near when the original was completed is always a problem. (If one thinks about Homer, one sees this without all the controversies that accompany anything to do with the Bible.) The first complete Hebrew Bible manuscript we have is relatively late, too.


54 posted on 11/08/2011 6:07:54 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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