I agree with much of your comments. Speculation is nice, but I have to go with what we've got. And basically, we have four sets of manuscripts/books:
a. 5th century greek manuscripts; b. 10th century hebrew manuscripts; c. 15th century aramaic manuscripts; and d. 20th century english books. I choose "b" because of the limitations inherent in the translation process yielding "a," "c," and "d." And my un-scientific experience with these four sources impels to me the originality of "b," beginning ... but not ending, with the hyper-controversial little word .... עולם . regards, fred burlingame > > > My response: > > > > Not really. Even if it were true (and the jury definitely remains out on > the question) that there were significant differences between the versions > of the Hebrew and, as your question implies, the version used for the LXX > was closer to the original, the fact remains that the LXX is a translation. > Who will be able to judge which differences are the result of a different > source text, and which ones are the result of the interpretations required > to determine how to express the message in Greek? > > > > Perhaps you might want to research the problems inherent in > back-translation, a technique used frequently to attempt to check the > accuracy of a translation. > > > > Paul Zellmer > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
