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Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
From Grabe to Göttingen, meet the editors who made the Septuagint usable—establishing text, mapping recensions, and modeling sober, faith-serving method.
Ancient Greek copies often wrote JHVH in Hebrew letters. This chapter surveys key witnesses, the 134 substitutions, and what they mean for faithful translation.
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’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 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.
