Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 16/06/2004 14:40, Philip Engmann wrote:

>  
>
> > (although I argue elsewhere that LXX as a whole did not exist still in
> >    
> the 1st century CE) 
>
> hmmm.. 
> One vital point is that what is called the LXX is often diffuse and
> diverse and rather dubious manuscripts from 350 AD and later.  A text
> that could have been subject to lots of corrupt alexandrian "Christian"
> scribe "smoothing" to match the NT, among other problems.  And yet these
> texts are discussed as if it they were used, even in Israel, 300 years
> earlier !   This I believe is a primary presumption blunder of much
> Scriptural
> scholarship.  Floyd Nolan Jones discusses it some in a book on the
> web...
>
> Is there any reference for Floyd Nolan Jones's book on the web?
> Philip Engmann
>
>  
Steven/Schmuel gave a reference on this list last year 
(https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2003-June/015406.html), in 
a thread on Psalm 40:6:

> The Septuagint: A Critical Analysis by Floyd Nolan Jones p.45
> http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/1157/floyd-jones.htm
> http://www.floydjones.org/ebooks2.html
>
>  



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