[B-Greek] Why does the Greek New Testament sometimes quote from theLXX and not from the proto-MT where the two texts differ?
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Thu Mar 11 23:51:28 EST 2004
>
> Dear B-Greekers,
>
> Why does the Greek New Testament sometimes quote from the LXX and not
> from the proto-MT where the two texts differ?
>
> For example, in the following verses:[1]
>
> 1. Hebrews 1.6/
As your examples show, the author of Hebrews used the LXX, but do not jump
to the conclusion that this necessarily holds for other NT books. The author
of Hebrews was probably a Hellenistic Jew who may not have known much
Hebrew.
Iver Larsen
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