[kosta50]

Does your Bible say in Matt 1:23 that a "young woman" or a "virgin" will give birth? If it's the latter, you're reading the Septuagint. If you wish to believe it was "inserted" that's your choice but your argument is weak. Isaiah is, I believe, one of those books of the LXX that was found that is actually older than Christianity and the word it has is "virgin" — parqenoV.

[Uncle Chip]

Does your Bible say in Matt 1:23 that a "young woman" or a "virgin" will give birth? If it's the latter, you're reading the Septuagint. If you wish to believe it was "inserted" that's your choice but your argument is weak. Isaiah is, I believe, one of those books of the LXX that was found that is actually older than Christianity and the word it has is "virgin" — parqenoV.

Well the KJV that I use was translated from the Hebrew text and it reads "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, so that verse proves nothing.

My question is still a legitimate one. What is the pedigree of today's Septuagint from which these verses are quoted? Can the Septuagint of today be traced back to the Septuagint of the first century, particularly where these readings are concerned.

Is it true that all of today's Septuagints are revisions of the Septuagint in Codex B with no earlier pedigree? And how many of these have been revised further with readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls?

[fortheDeclaration]

Does your Bible say in Matt 1:23 that a "young woman" or a "virgin" will give birth? If it's the latter, you're reading the Septuagint. If you wish to believe it was "inserted" that's your choice but your argument is weak. Isaiah is, I believe, one of those books of the LXX that was found that is actually older than Christianity and the word it has is "virgin" — parqenoV.

You don't need a Greek Septuagint to know that Mary was a virgin, that is, a woman who hadn't 'known' a man. (Lk.1:34 cf Gen.24:16)

There are no Septuagint 'books' that have been found older then the New Testament.

The copy of Isaiah that was found was in Hebrew, not Greek.

The only BC evidence of any Greek Old Testament writings are some fragments from the Torah.