[B-Greek] Why does the Greek New Testament sometimes quote from the LXX and not from the proto-MT where the two texts differ?
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Thu Mar 11 09:54:52 EST 2004
Dear Philip,
>Why does the Greek New Testament sometimes quote from the LXX and not
>from the proto-MT where the two texts differ?
Thanks for putting together the list of citations. I assume that the NT
writers were familiar with the LXX and felt that it served their purposes
satisfactorily. After all, they were writing in Greek. The quotation in Heb
1:6 could be from Ps 97:7 (LXX 96:7). The other citations do not seem to
change the meaning from the Hebrew that much in terms of the NT usage and
context.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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