[B-Greek] Why does GNT Hebrews quote from LXX and not proto-MT?
Barbara D. Colt
babc2 at comcast.net
Wed Mar 17 11:19:04 EST 2004
On 17 Mar 2004 at 14:44, Philip Engmann wrote:
> Dear B-Greekers,
>
> I guess I have had the erroneous idea that since the Greek New
> Testament writers (being native Hebrews), specifically the Writer to
> the Hebrews, quoted from the LXX and not from the proto-MT texts, then
> the LXX was somehow a more preferred or accurate or authentic text, in
> the writers view, than the proto-MT texts available to the writer at
> the time.
>
> But this theory fails for several reasons which many of you have
> kindly pointed out (and I quote in some cases);
>
>
> 3. Ancient translations of the New Testament such as
> the Syriac, usually quote from their translation of the Old Testament
> rather than the Hebrew. This suggests that it was simply the custom
> to use the version the readers were most accustomed to.
>
Not unlike our our own custom today. What version are you most
likely to quote? For nigh on 400 years (until about 50 years ago),
nearly every quotation of the Bible that one met in reading was from
the King James (and I have to admit that, if I am quoting from
memory, that's still the version that will naturally come to mind).
Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
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