Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Really?

I was unaware that the septuagint was created at one time or even in one
century.

I also understand that general agreement as to the canon of the septuagint
has never arrived.

And surely, the oldest complete manuscripts of the septuagint include both
old & new testaments as but a single document; witness codices vaticanus,
sinaiticus and alexandrinus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint#Creation_of_the_Septuagint

regards,

fred burlingame




On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:36:09 -0600, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > c. the Western Christian community generally accepts the MT version of
> the
> > phrase for their old testament; and the septuagint rendering for their
> new
> > testament; and
>
> Correction on point of fact:  there is no such thing as a "Septuagint New
> Testament".  The LXX is a translation from Hebrew into Greek; the NT is
> not.
>
> --
> William Parsons
>