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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Christian codices like Vaticanus and Sinaiticus copied a pre-Christian Jewish Greek Old Testament; they did not create a new Christian translation from Hebrew.
The Lucianic recension of the Septuagint refined an existing Greek text, aligning it with Hebrew tradition and shaping Byzantine textual transmission.
Greek translations of the Old Testament—LXX, Jewish revisions, Hexapla, and major codices—serve the Hebrew text and aid the restoration of the original words.
Vaticanus, Sinaiticus, and Alexandrinus anchor the Septuagint; early papyri confirm its pre-Christian use; Hexaplaric, Antiochene, and kaige lines explain its variants.
The Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, includes additional texts and distinct canonical variations, influencing biblical studies significantly.
