[B-Greek] LXX question, probably for Drs. Pietersma or Buth??

Mitch Larramore mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 13 01:34:29 EDT 2008


Mark:

Your observations may help me clarify some points I tried to make in my first post. I think the point this guy was making is that orthodox Jewish religious leaders/rabbis were the ones who rejected the Christian's LXX. Many Jews could read Hebrew, but surely this would not be true of the religious rabbis.

The apocryphal 4 Maccabees is by an unknown author so this is eliminated from consideration.

Philo was too supportive of Christian doctrines to be considered a Jewish rabbi who rejected the Christians. And he shows no awareness of knowing Hebrew.

The 'betrayer' of the Jewish people Josephus is hardly a model Jew, and of course Paul is a Christian. 

I'm really interested in documentation of first century Rabbinic teachers who quite often quoted from the LXX. I am assuming this is quite common but I'm not sure. In other words, I would like to see a few specific names and quotes within your 'few hundred thousand others." 

By "true" Jew I understood this teacher to be referring to anti-Christian, Rabbinic teachers. And a rabbi would, I presume, know Hebrew and Aramaic as well as he knew Greek.


Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas


--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] LXX question, probably for Drs. Pietersma or Buth??
> To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>, mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 11:16 PM
> No true first century Jew would quote the LXX over the
> Hebrew except for
> Philo and Josephus and the guy who wrote 4 Maccabees and a
> few
> hundred thousand others including Paul of Tarsus who in my
> opinion
> is the truest Jew of all....
>  
> 



      



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