To: Lera; MarkBsnr; boatbums
The Septuagint was written in Alexandria, by the way.
The Torah was translated by 72 Jewish scholars into Greek for the library of Alexandria in ---- > 300 BC <---- and that has NOTHING to do with Augustine or any of the others you mentioned . The 70, 72, (whatever) scholars is a legend . How true is anybody's guess.
In any event there was no single Septuagint.
958 posted on
06/23/2011 11:16:55 AM PDT by
OLD REGGIE
(I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE
Exactly
They only translated the Torrah (first 5 books) for the library of Alexandria
Codex Alexandria is not this
959 posted on
06/23/2011 1:51:15 PM PDT by
Lera
To: OLD REGGIE
Exactly
They only translated the Torah (first 5 books) for the library of Alexandria
Codex Alexandria is not this
960 posted on
06/23/2011 1:51:57 PM PDT by
Lera
To: OLD REGGIE
I’m sure that there was an original Septuagint. It seems highly unlikely that there were parallel Septuagints created at the same time. But like the books of Scripture, they were copied with either inadvertant or deliberate changes over time.
980 posted on
06/24/2011 4:32:11 AM PDT by
MarkBsnr
(I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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