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  • From: Will Parsons <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
  • To: tensorpath AT gmail.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
  • Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:58:43 -0500 (EST)

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:34:15 -0600, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
wrote:
> Really?
>
> I was unaware that the septuagint was created at one time or even in one
> century.

Quite right. But even in the wider sense it does not comprise the NT.

> 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

These are not "manuscripts of the septuagint" - they are manuscripts of the
Greek Bible (in the Xtian sense, OT+NT) that include the Septuagint, i.e,
the OT text is that of the LXX, the NT text is simply the Greek NT.

> 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.

--
Will Parsons




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