[b-hebrew] Exo 12:40 430 years
Steve Miller
smille10 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 4 13:37:13 EDT 2009
> From: James Read
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> you state that MT is generally better than LXX. What do you base this
> on? I've been looking into this a lot recently. We don't even know
> what the LXX originally looked like and so, personally, I find it more
> useful to discuss specific texts like the codex vaticanus and the
> codex sinaiticus. The MT frequently mistakes gender (confuses he with
> she). How confidence building is that?
>
> James Christian
>
[Steve Miller] James,
I thought it was generally accepted that the MT is much more accurate than
the LXX. One strong reason is that the LXX is a translation. Nevertheless
there are many places where the LXX reading is correct and the MT has an
error.
-Steve Miller
Detroit
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