Re: biblical languages Re: A question...

[Martin Edwards]

Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:37:45 GMT: Matt Giwer
> <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
>
>
> > 2	The first mention of these people, stories and events appears in the Greek 
> > Septuagint. There is no mention of anything in it found in any other source 
> > prior to it. 
>
>
> BTW, the German wikipedia at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgata says
> that the Vulgate was translated by Jerome, who "wandte sich ab 390 der
> Übersetzung des Alten Testaments zu – nicht wie die meisten anderen
> frühchristlichen Bibelübersetzungen aus der griechischen Septuaginta,
> sondern unter Benutzung des hebräischen Urtexts."
>
> What were those those Hebrew originals if the Mishnaic texts were
> finalized around 1000 AD, and the Dead Scrolls were discovered in
> 1947?
The Wikipedia is open source.  Especially where Christianity is 
concerned, it is likely to contain material the contributors have been 
taught, not based on research.

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