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To: Fester Chugabrew

T OT Masoretic Text - a text not in use at the time Jesus quoted the OT scriptures - was authoritatively used by Jerome.

Even though by doing so Jerome translated a work that people then in Jerome’s time would have attributed to Jesus quoting from, but would not and could not have been quoted by Jesus.

I don’t know if a Pseudoepigraphal-like translation would come closet to describing what Jerome effectively did, but it comes close...


16 posted on 09/22/2014 9:37:01 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

My Hebrew, Latin, and Greek skills are lacking to the extent I would have no way to assess your assessment. It is a subject of curiosity for me, though. The Masoretic text is believed to be exceedingly accurate in conveying the Books of Moses as originally written, so it is not as though Jesus studied something different as he “grew in stature.”


17 posted on 09/22/2014 9:41:21 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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