Really? I was unaware that the septuagint was created at one time or even in one century.
I also understand that general agreement as to the canon of the septuagint has never arrived. And surely, the oldest complete manuscripts of the septuagint include both old & new testaments as but a single document; witness codices vaticanus, sinaiticus and alexandrinus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint#Creation_of_the_Septuagint regards, fred burlingame On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Will Parsons <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:36:09 -0600, fred burlingame <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > c. the Western Christian community generally accepts the MT version of > the > > phrase for their old testament; and the septuagint rendering for their > new > > testament; and > > Correction on point of fact: there is no such thing as a "Septuagint New > Testament". The LXX is a translation from Hebrew into Greek; the NT is > not. > > -- > William Parsons > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
