CNES 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Septuagint
5 Mar 2018
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There are many different versions of the original writings from the bible because of translation (scribes and verbal translations). Torah: think of it as law = wisdom and teaching not rules. After the exile, most of the jews didn"t speak hebrew anymore, so they had to translate the bible into the different languages that they developed (primarily. Septuagint (lxx) started as the jewish bible, but ended as the christian bible. (greek) Later on, they stopped speaking greek and started using latin. Translated the hebrew books and the apocrypha into latin. Around 1000 ce there was a split between the eastern orth. (lxx) and west cath. (vulgata) Martin luther (1500s) took the hebrew scriptures and translated them into.
