[Titanites]

This is an excerpt from a lengthy presentation made at a Dean Burgon Society Meeting in 2005. I posted this as a separate thread because it has appeared on another thread as evidence that the Septuagint is a fraud. The original poster, Uncle Chip, has made the accusation a couple of times on various threads that the Septuagint is a fraud, and I suspect his main evidence is this one article.

I thought it would be fruitful to discuss the accusations made in the article, primarily that:

The other known fact about the misnomer, Septuagint, is that it is a non-entity. The name is adapted from a fraudulent document, Letter of Aristeas. The only extant Letter is an eleventh century document.

Today, the manuscript that is generally called the Septuagint is the Old Testament Greek translation constructed by Origin Adamantius, called Codex B (c.245 A.D.). This is the real recension as opposed to the theoretical recensions of the Received Greek and Hebrew Texts. Codex B is the 5th (fifth) column of Origin’s Hexapla, a six column parallel Bible. Origen labeled the 5th (fifth) column the LXX.

[Titanites]

Strong evidence that H. D. Williams is misinformed comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls. As can be found in the Jewish Virtual Library, the documents recovered from Qumran date “from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E.” when the site was destroyed by the Roman Legions.

Parts of the Septuagint were recovered from Qumran, so the Septuagint must date to 68 C.E. or before. The Septuagint, the Greek version of the Bible, is typically dated to have been translated in the third to second centuries B.C.E.

Origen lived from 185-232 C.E. so, it is impossible that the Septuagint could have originated from him.

[kawaii]

If the Septuagint is a fraud then Christianity is since the Christ, the Apostles, and the Church Fathers all quote from it.

[Titanites]

Orthodox ping. A discussion about the Septuagint.

[dangus]

How can we listen to Dean Burgon?! He was a self-proclaimed numismatist! A flaming homosapien who regularly exposed his epidermis to people!

;^D