...For that matter, I would challenge anyone to take a passage from a Bible translation from Hebrew into English, or any other modern language, especially a translation which is not very literal, and translate it back into Hebrew without reference to the original (and assuming they haven't more or less memorised the original). I would be surprised if anyone today can come up with anything like the original text. Indeed in principle this is more or less impossible, because in any translation including this back-translation there will always be many choices to be made and in this scenario no guarantee that the choice made will match the original text.
To draw a parallel closer to our time, if my memory serves me correctly,
when Erasmus went to assemble a Greek NT he had to translate a few verses
from Latin back into Greek because there were no texts available. As Greek
texts have become available it should be possible to check his accuracy.
That should give us some indication of whether it is feasible to recover
a lost Hebrew text on the basis of the LXX.
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