What is the Septuagint? with Dr. John Byron

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What is the Septuagint? When was it written? How does it impact our understanding of the BIble? These are a few of the questions explored in this short video interview between Dr. John Byron, professor of New Testament and Dean of Ashland Theological Seminary, and Michael Hoff.
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@roddumlauf9241 Год назад

Lets go much deeper into this topic. I use the Septuagint as my primary Bible for the Old Testament but use the Masoretic text based OT as a back up to compare.

@DigitalTheologian Год назад

I’m curious what motivated you to approach the OT in this manner. What have you found to be beneficial working from a Greek text (or it’s translation) as opposed to the Masoretic text?

@roddumlauf9241 Год назад

@@DigitalTheologian There are many reasons as to what motivated me to elevate the Septuagint into the high regard that I do; but probably the most important is that the New Testament writers almost always use it above the proto masoretic when quoting from the Old Testament; and the comparative texts were often substantially different, causing me to wonder, "which text type is correct ?", or possibly neither. But the fact that the Apostles used the Septuagint over the proto-masoretic was the spark that got me thinking. Plus the fact that Paul used Greek Isaiah over Hebrew Isaiah to develop his theology in Romans was interesting to me. Third, there are many more mistakes and contradictions in the Hebrew Masoretic than in the Septuagint was a deciding factor also...not that the existing Septuagint doesn't have it's problems also.

@DigitalTheologian Год назад

Thanks for the excellent response! Those are compelling reasons. The fact that the Septuagint was the Bible of Jesus and the earliest Christians has prompted me to want to read it more myself. I have to admit that I love Hebrew and prefer going back to the language the Bible was originally written in rather than a translation. At the same time, it is a luxury for modern readers to be able to compare so many copies of these ancient documents. Even with the variations in texts, they have proven to be exceptionally reliable whether in the MT or LXX. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

@roddumlauf9241 Год назад

@@DigitalTheologian Hey Digital, The Dead Sea Scrolls show us that there were a number of text type families in Hebrew existing at the time when the OT Scriptures were translated into Greek. Yes, the majority were proto Masoretic manuscripts found within the Dead Sea Scrolls, but there also exists a text type family that the "70" used to translate the Hebrew into Greek. And they were almost perfectly accurate. Before the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, scholars thought that the so called 70 (72) scribes who translated the Hebrew text into Greek did a poor job of translating. But because of the Dead Sea Scrolls, we now know that they did an almost perfect job according to the Hebrew text that they were working from ( which is different from the Hebrew text that our Bibles rely on in translation). And I blame that on Jerome and the Roman Catholic Church ....that's another story. In any case, if you can read Hebrew ( I can't). But it would be cool if you could see and read the Hebrew text that the 70 used to translate the Hebrew Scripture into Greek. I recommend a book by Timothy Law, titled "When God Spoke Greek". Lots of English Translation of the Septuagint into English ! and more to come because Scholars know that the Septuagint is more accurate to the original Hebrew than the Masoretic. Blessings, Br. Rodd

@DigitalTheologian Год назад

@@roddumlauf9241 The revealed accuracy of the Septuagint due to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is one fascinating aspect of what was found at Qumran. I appreciate you highlighting it. Thank you for the book recommendation! You have clearly done your homework on this. Thanks for sharing your insights.