[b-hebrew] Qumran agreement with LXX and MT, was: aph
Philip Engmann
philipengmann at idngh.com
Thu Feb 26 09:05:20 EST 2004
I just wish to make a small clarification.
The MT was pointed from the 5th -10th Centuries AD.
The LXX was translated from its Hebrew parent text into Greek in the
period, 3 BC to 3 AD.
So the LXX was in existence before the MT by at least 200 years.
So the LXX could not have been translated from the MT.
The LXX was translated from a Hebrew parent text.
This LXX Hebrew parent text sometimes differed from the MT parent-text,
i.e. the proto-MT, and sometimes agreed with it.
Thank you.
Philip Engmann
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Qumran agreement with LXX and MT, was: aph
The commonest explanations of these differences are that the LXX is not
always an accurate translation of the MT, that sometimes the LXX
translators were working from a variant Hebrew text, and that sometimes
the LXX has become corrupted in copying.
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