Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Dave Oldridge
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Mon Jan 08 2001 07:35 am

-=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to KEITH KNAPP <=-

 DO> Actually, this "error" is in the Septuagint, a pre-Christian
 DO> translation of the Old Testament into Greek.

Actually, a pre-xtian translation of the Torah into Greek. The
rest of the books were often translated by xtians, including,
incidentally, Isaiah. However, the sages didn't think much
of the Torah translation either; the fast of the Tenth of Teves
that we celebrated last Friday honors the tragedy of the
publication of the Septuagint, among other things.

 DO> It is that version that
 DO> is almost invariably quoted in the New Testament, often verbatim.

Strange considering that the population there spoke Aramaic, not
Greek, as their mode of discourse. Even J. is portrayed as speaking
it in one passage. Jews still refer occasionally to Aramaic
translations (esp. Onkelos) today as a form of commentary; never
to the Septuagint, who has it's own commemorative fast day. :-)

                       JBL

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