Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 04:38 PM 3/4/2004 -0600, Harold R. Holmyard III wrote:
> A possible problem with your line of reasoning, but I may misunderstand
> you, is that however old the LXX might be, we don't have the original
> manuscripts. The DSS copies of the LXX we have are the oldest we have, I
> think.

It is also true that:

1. The DSS has the oldest manuscripts of the MT.
2. There is numerically much more MT readings then LXX.
3. I have yet to find a LXX reading used in a 'sectarian' text.