I spent a few weeks studying Ancient Greek theater in Greece. What a profoundly beautiful and powerful place it is. No surprise it’s where the Gospel went forth immediately after Israel.
The find was significant because the texts were much older than the Bible manuscripts produced by Jewish scholars in medieval times.
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The Jewish scribes considered their copies more accurate than the source they copied from.
They had elaborate counting and ‘parity’ schemes to enable this.
So. I do not consider the mdieval times Jewish manuscripts (I am assuming in Hebrew), to be inferior.
While confirming the importance of Greek, it is not exactly surprising. I mean, Greek was the language of science and literature, and was the common language that permeated the area from 300 BC to 600 AD. It is not exactly unexpected that any Old Testament coppies from after 300 BC would be written in Greek.