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  • From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: "'James Read'" <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>, "'B-Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exo 12:40 430 years
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:37:13 -0400

> From: James Read
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> you state that MT is generally better than LXX. What do you base this
> on? I've been looking into this a lot recently. We don't even know
> what the LXX originally looked like and so, personally, I find it more
> useful to discuss specific texts like the codex vaticanus and the
> codex sinaiticus. The MT frequently mistakes gender (confuses he with
> she). How confidence building is that?
>
> James Christian
>
[Steve Miller] James,
I thought it was generally accepted that the MT is much more accurate than
the LXX. One strong reason is that the LXX is a translation. Nevertheless
there are many places where the LXX reading is correct and the MT has an
error.
-Steve Miller
Detroit





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