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Explore ancient Old Testament versions, including Septuagint, Samaritan Pentateuch, Targums, Syriac, Latin, and Coptic, for textual comparison and translation history.
How the Septuagint helps restore earlier Hebrew, where its limits lie, and how to use Rahlfs-Hanhart and Göttingen responsibly in modern textual criticism.
How the Septuagint handles Hebrew names and key terms, and how those choices shape New Testament vocabulary and Christ-centered proclamation.
How the Septuagint’s translators balanced literal and free strategies, preserved Hebrew structure in Greek, and used careful interpretation to keep meaning clear.
Why the Septuagint’s Greek sounds simple, formal, and Hebraized; how Hebrew syntax shapes it; and how its idioms should be taught and translated.
How the New Testament cites the Septuagint, where it differs from the Hebrew, and how Jesus and the Apostles used Greek Scripture while honoring the Hebrew base.
Why Greek Scripture was embraced by Jews, why rabbis later rejected it, and how Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion reshaped Jewish Greek to mirror the Hebrew.
How and why the Septuagint differs from the Masoretic Text—additions, omissions, and interpreted renderings—with Jeremiah, Daniel, and Esther as detailed case studies.
How the early Fathers quoted the Septuagint, used it to argue doctrine, and defended it against Jewish criticism while honoring the primacy of the Hebrew text.
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint converge on key readings—Deut 32, 1 Samuel, Jeremiah, Isaiah—clarifying the earliest Hebrew text and strengthening confidence.
Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus anchor the Septuagint; early papyri confirm its pre-Christian use; Hexaplaric, Antiochene, and kaige lines explain its variants.
