[wmfights]

The Law, the Prophets and the Psalms.

Thanks for the details on what the recognized Canon really was and who added books to it. I appreciate the links. They will give me sources to begin looking at after I finish my current reading.

IIRC the LXX is also known as the Septuagint because it was supposed to have been translated by 70 scholars in 70 days from Hebrew to Greek. If this is true it would seem to me that the greatest concern for error would exist with the LXX because the scholars were working so quickly.

As I understand it the Masoretic text was never written in that type of time frame.

Was the Masoretic text translated from another text?

[HarleyD]

IIRC the LXX is also known as the Septuagint because it was supposed to have been translated by 70 scholars in 70 days from Hebrew to Greek. If this is true it would seem to me that the greatest concern for error would exist with the LXX because the scholars were working so quickly.

Here is an excellent and objective article on the Septuagint. Unfortunately it doesn't address the Masoretic text which, as I understand it, came after the three versions (AQUILA, SYMMACHUS, THEODOTION). It is my understanding the Masoretic text was an attempt to correct some of the issues with the Septuagint these three versions tried to compete with but not to scrap it.

[kosta50]

The reference in 10,768 was indeed objective at the time it was written (approximately mid 1800's). The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1945-1956) changed everything with respect to the 'correctness' of the Palestinian ('Hebrew') canon and dissipated much of the doubt expressed about the Septuagint up to that discovery.