Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Philip Engmann" <philipengmann AT idngh.com>]

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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[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk
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To: Jonathan Walther
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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.