Re: Bible ? Quran ? Torah ? (OT)

de Global Warming 04/18/2006 10:55

Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in
news:62f842hd2d5pu0p8ko78d7dlh6lbs2pq9g@4ax.com:

> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:46:07 +1000, John Fitzsimons
> <DELETEucwubqf02@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>>The "originals" are simply a mixture of stories.
>
> Written, in the case of the OT, in Hebrew and, in the case of the NT,
> in Greek.
>
> We're discussing languages, not whether the bible is fact or fiction.
>
>>Also, just because someone writes in Hebrew it doesn't follow that what
>>they write is the truth.
>
> Who said anything about truth? I was addressing the (totally
> erroneous) claim that the OT was translated from Hebrew.
>

It is my understanding that the OT was translated into Greek The
Septuagint ("LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the Koine
Greek Alexandrine text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh/Old Testament)
produced some time between the third to first century BC. Manuscript
copies of the Septuagint are the oldest and most important complete
version of the Old Testament and until the discovery of the Dead Sea
Scrolls predated the Hebrew, or Masoretic, manuscripts texts by as much
as 1,000 years..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint