Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Schmuel wrote:

> > Schmuel wrote:
> > > > > 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: You don't include other sources of LXX quotations such as Philo and 
> > > > Josephus.


> > > Do Philo or Josephus give any support for those actual verses ?
> > > I have never seen even one.

> Schmuel
> You did not answer this question in regard to the NT prophecy verses,
> the issue at hand.

  Harold, do you even understand what we are 
discussing ?

HH: No, I did not understand your question. You 
want Philo or Josephus quotes of the Septuagint 
that match the 100 or so places quotations in the 
NT that match the Septuagint. No, I have not done 
that detailed research.

HH: One of the issues raised in this discussion 
was whether the LXX pre-existed the NT. That was 
what I was addressing in my point about Philo and 
Josephus.

> Oh, I see you agree that we have no extant Latin OT manuscripts at all, and 
> little
> early Greek OT, just smidgens of attempted reconstructions from this and that.

HH: Neither of these statements seem to be true. 
We do have Old Latin manuscripts, though they are 
fragmentary. Perhaps that is what you mean. And of 
course there are early Greek OT manuscripts. We 
also have much Old Latin materials in patristic 
quotations.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard