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  • From: "Joseph I. Lauer" <josephlauer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Septuagint Variant mentioned in the Talmud
  • Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:38:30 -0500


The explanation that is given is that the 72 elders translated the verse
(and other verses) to obviate a reading that there were several deities.
The ArtScroll [Schottenstein] Talmud (Megillah 9a2) translates the
Hebrew version of the Greek as "'I' shall make man in image and form" and
notes (n. 20):
20. Instead of accurately translating [na'aseh adam] as: Let "us"
make man ... (Gen. 1:26), which could give rise to the mistaken notion of
several deities (Rashi). Others point out that the elders also altered the
next part of the verse by rendering [b'tsalmenu kidmusenu] as "in image and
likeness," rather than the accurate "in our image and our form," so that
Ptolemy should not attribute image and form to God (Korban HaEidah to
Yerushalmi 1:9; Rashash).
Joseph I. Lauer
Brooklyn, New York




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