Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Karl,
My feeling -- and this is just a feeling -- that if the LXX had written YHWH
and not kurios,
that there wouldn't have been a confusion between Jesus and kurios=YHWH.
No where is there a tendency to call Jesus YHWH, but with the substitution
of the word LORD, there is the blurring of identities.  Suddenly it is
Jesus' name before whom every knee must bow. So originally it is before the
name YHWH, then before the name LORD, and then before the name JESUS.
I don't think that would have happened if the LXX didn't have LORD for YHWH.
What do you think?
Best,
Liz Fried


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> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Septuagint vs Hebrew, effect on Christianity
> 
> Liz:
> 
> The founding of Christianity was not dependent on the LXX, but had it
> not existed, how would Christianity have spread? Probably not among
> the Greek speaking Roman empire.
> 
> I wonder if there are any substantive differences, besides the many minor
ones.
> 
> Karl W. Randolph.
> 
> On 9/21/06, Lisbeth S. Fried <lizfried AT umich.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Benjamin,
> > These are great questions! I think that if there hadn't been an LXX
there
> > wouldn't have been Christianity. I'd be very interested in any books or
> > articles on the subject that you find.
> > Liz Fried
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