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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Abstruse Caboose
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Sep 17th, 2006, 04:11 AM
Dude, as far as I know there are no surviving texts of any part of the Hebrew Scriptures dating earlier than around 1000 AD. Obviously they did exist, but it does stick out that the Dead Sea Scrolls tend to agree more with the verbiage of the LXX than of the later accepted Hebrew texts. Regardless of what was believed at the time of its authorship, even Josephus exhalted the LXX as being divinely inspired in its own right. There's no way you can compare the validity between the oral tradition and the LXX because although we have Greek fragments dating to the Persian Empire, I think the oldest Hebrew representations are medieval. So, the idea that the current accepted texts in Hebrew are any more similar to what the Jews studied orally than a translation into Greek is pretty worthless from a historical criticism POV.
I did mean Tanakh or whatever it's called, and not Torah. Rip me a new one for that.
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