[B-Greek] Why does the Greek New Testament sometimes quote from theLXX and not from the proto-MT where the two texts differ?

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 11 16:52:41 EST 2004



Philip Engmann wrote:

> 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?
>

At the risk of simplification, it's because both the authors of NT works
and
the target audiences of those works did not  read/speak Hebrew and
knew/read
the Hebrew Scriptures only in Greek translation.

Jeffrey Gibson
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