'No such thing as *the* LXX' (Steve Carr)
Matthew Bell mbkbell@aapi.co.uk
Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:03:06 +0100 (00893721786, 19980427195805968.AAA1031@mbell.aapi.co.uk)
> >MATT BELL
> >Why? Because the intial claim made by Helen Willis was:
> >
> >'Second, the KJV that was authorized included the Apocryphal book, so do
> >you feel it should be part of the modern Bible? All version of the
> >Septuagint contained these books. The New Testament quotes the
> >Septuagint, exclusively and refers to it as the scriptures. The church
> >father quote these books and the Septuagint and call both scripture. How
> >do you justify using the Hebrew texts as source for the Old Testament
> >and not treating the Apocryphal texts as scripture? Why do you think
> >that the Church of England which caused the KJV translation and the
> >authorized it has never claimed anything closed to inerrancy for this
> >translation?'
> >
> >If a BC LXX, complete with Apocrypha cannot be established, and I
believe
> >that it will be a far more difficult task to establish a BC Apocryphal
LXX
> >than it is being to establish just a BC LXX, then Helen's assertions
above
> >are shown to be erroneous.
>
> CARR
> Helen would have been more accurate to say every Christian version of
> the Septuagint included the Apocyrpha, or at least some of those books.
>
> There is no such thing as *the* LXX. There are many Septuagintal
> translations, but it was never translated all at one time.
MATT BELL
And what is the date for the earliest copy of a Christian version of an LXX
with the Apocrypha?
Thanks
Matt Bell