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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Septuagint vs Hebrew, effect on Christianity
  • Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:35:17 -0500

Schmuel wrote:

K Randolph wrote:
LXX was irrelevant to the founding of Christianity and the writing of the New
Testament.

Harold Holmyard,
HH: What do you mean when you say this? It is obvious that the NT quotation of many OT verses follows the LXX wording exactly or almost exactly.


Steven: An easier general explanation for the verses in question -

The Greek OT was 'smoothed' by low-quality scribes between 100 AD to 500 AD
to be closer to the NT - by scribes who simply could not leave midrash alone
:-)

HH: Let me add to what I said that translation is a very flexible undertaking. The same words in Hebrew can be translated many ways into English, as is apparent from the many Hebrew Bible translations that exist today. The same is no doubt true with Greek, as is somewhat demonstrable from the various remains of ancient Greek translations of the OT that we have. One set of Hebrew words could engender a wide variety of Greek verbal and syntactical choices. The fact that the NT matches the LXX in so many places would imply a massive alteration of the LXX text to conform it to the NT. It would not be a small project.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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