MT vs LXX resources?
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Jerusalem Blade
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This is a paper worth considering: The Septuagint: A Critical Analysis, by Floyd Jones (pdf)
I also would repeat posting this (below) from the earlier thread. I have DiVietro's booklet in hardcopy, Did Jesus & the Apostles Quote the Septuagint (LXX)?. I will see if I can't have it copied into a pdf and made available. It is valuable! Although my being physically handicapped now is an obstacle.
What I would deny is that the writers of the N.T. (& Jesus) used Greek translations if they differed from the Hebrew. If a Greek portion of the OT they had rightly translated Hebrew words or phrases, they could have used them. As Dr. Kirk D. DiVietro in his, Did Jesus & the Apostles Quote the Septuagint (LXX)?, says,
I also would repeat posting this (below) from the earlier thread. I have DiVietro's booklet in hardcopy, Did Jesus & the Apostles Quote the Septuagint (LXX)?. I will see if I can't have it copied into a pdf and made available. It is valuable! Although my being physically handicapped now is an obstacle.
What I would deny is that the writers of the N.T. (& Jesus) used Greek translations if they differed from the Hebrew. If a Greek portion of the OT they had rightly translated Hebrew words or phrases, they could have used them. As Dr. Kirk D. DiVietro in his, Did Jesus & the Apostles Quote the Septuagint (LXX)?, says,
What value does the LXX have for us? Just because the LXX is not the Bible of Jesus and the writers of Scripture does not mean that it is valueless. The Septuagint married the vocabulary of Greece to the theology of Israel. If this marriage had not taken place Christianity would have either died as an extension of Israel’s law, or Greece’s logic. But in the Septuagint, God provided a commentary and word study….
The work of the early Greek translators of the Old Testament provided a ready made translational database for Jesus and the writers of Scripture. While on occasion they may have coined a phrase or borrowed vocabulary, the writers of the New Testament had established Greek equivalents to work with. The similarities between fragmentary Greek Old Testament manuscripts and the New Testament may well have been the joyful result of not having to reinvent the wheel. While they may not have used the pseudo-Septuagints for their daily Bible, they may well have used them to shortcut the process of restating a Hebrew quote in the Greek New Testament. When the pseudo-Septuagint fell short in accuracy, the writer would offer a Holy Ghost inspired running translation.
The pseudo-Septuagint offers the modern Bible student a rich source of semi-Biblical, theological literature. Having this large homogenous yet diverse body of literature, the student can determine with relative accuracy the meaning of words he finds in the Greek New Testament. The search facilities of modern computers allows the student to do original statistical analysis and reach first hand decisions on matters of definition and use. The student is no longer servant to the scholars. (p. 7)
The work of the early Greek translators of the Old Testament provided a ready made translational database for Jesus and the writers of Scripture. While on occasion they may have coined a phrase or borrowed vocabulary, the writers of the New Testament had established Greek equivalents to work with. The similarities between fragmentary Greek Old Testament manuscripts and the New Testament may well have been the joyful result of not having to reinvent the wheel. While they may not have used the pseudo-Septuagints for their daily Bible, they may well have used them to shortcut the process of restating a Hebrew quote in the Greek New Testament. When the pseudo-Septuagint fell short in accuracy, the writer would offer a Holy Ghost inspired running translation.
The pseudo-Septuagint offers the modern Bible student a rich source of semi-Biblical, theological literature. Having this large homogenous yet diverse body of literature, the student can determine with relative accuracy the meaning of words he finds in the Greek New Testament. The search facilities of modern computers allows the student to do original statistical analysis and reach first hand decisions on matters of definition and use. The student is no longer servant to the scholars. (p. 7)
Jerusalem Blade
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The bulk of the book by DiVietro is comprised of examinations of the readings of the LXX and the Hebrew and the NT use of LXX readings in Hebrews, John, and Acts (which contain most of the instances). Here's an example:
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