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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Jewish Revisionism and Attempted Corruptions
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 11:30:55


At 10:34 AM 10/23/99 -0700, you wrote:
><p>2) Produce a new Hebrew Text to replace the older Greek LXX and serve
>as a standard text for all the Jewish and Hebrew people. The Text of the
>Sopherim was no longer usable it seems because it was not generally available
>for the Jewish and Hebrew people. This text is what we know today as the
>Masoretic Text or the M T.

The problem with this is that among the Dead Sea Scrolls, which pre-date
Christianity, that plurality of texts are MT and not LXX (which makes up a
very smallamount of texts.) Your thesis here does not seem to fit the
evidence.





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