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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Septuagint vs Hebrew, effect on Christianity
  • Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:20:14 -0000


----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
I wonder if there are any substantive differences, besides the many minor ones.

Karl W. Randolph.


That depends on what you mean by "substantive differences", and which Hebrew text you're referring to. If you are comparing the LXX as we now know it (and ignoring the slight differences between the different textual traditions within the LXX) and the MT as we know it, remember that the LXX includes whole books that the MT does not - what we call the Apocrypha. Plus the "apocryphal" chapters of Daniel, Esther and Psalms. So that "the Old Testament" as known to the early Christians (and to eastern Christians to this day) is much larger than the Jewish Tanakh.

Now was this the case during the first and second centuries CE, when Christianity was taking form? What did the "Greek Bible" of the time include? What did the "Hebrew Bible" of the time include? Unfortunately, we have only partial information.

Yigal Levin




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