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Division of the Septuagint
The main difference of the Septuagint from the primary source (Tanakh) is the increase in the number of books. First of all, these are apocrypha. A different division of books.
The main difference between the Septuagint and the traditional Tanakh is the larger number of books. And also another division of books. Apocryphal additions to books:
AdvantageThe translation used earlier manuscripts that have not survived to this day.After the captivity to Babylon, the Jews began to speak Aramaic (related to Hebrew) and changed the alphabet from Paleo-script to Babylonian square script. When switching from one alphabet to another manually, errors inevitably creep in. So, when translating the Septuagint, the texts of the original paleo-letter were also available. Some passages are translated more accurately than the original that has come down to us. When translating, it is always interesting to see how difficult passages are translated in the Septuagint. The New Testament quotes the SeptuagintThe Septuagint was quoted, and the text of the Tanakh was not translated into Greek.This is clearly evident from minor discrepancies. By the way, deuterocanonical books were also quoted. Moreover, there was no canon then. Deuterocanonical booksInitially, all the books were in separate scrolls and were in one place - a jug, a special shelf or...There was no gradation, they were just there. And the Jews themselves translated these books into Greek and called them the Septuagint. They chose books to translate, especially since there was no canon yet. The Septuagint was popular in the early church because most people did not speak Hebrew. Rome considered Christians a Jewish sect and Gospels and epistles began to appear. Then the Jews decided to distance themselves from Christians and protect themselves from the penetration of new holy books. This is how the canon was determined, which included 22 books according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, so that it was complete. For this purpose, the very best books were selected, many were combined, for example:
They were called deuterocanonical. The generally accepted definition is that they are not divinely inspired, but historical. The link between the Old and New TestamentsWe all know that Jesus did not speak Greek, as He is quoted in the original New Testament, but Aramaic and Hebrew, as they then spoke in Israel.Here the question arises of the correspondence of Greek words to Hebrew ones. Example of online translatorsLet's take a break. Computer translators were built on the principle of grammar.They were fed a text, they studied the grammatical structure of, say, a Russian text and built a suitable version of, for example, an English text using English grammar. It seems simple. Only such a translator could work correctly with literate literary texts. Google, Yandex, Microsoft... created artificial intelligence. They took advantage of the fact that many sites on the Internet have versions in different languages. Having studied them, an algorithm was created for translating any text: literary, youth slang, professional jargon... We also have the text in the original language, as well as the translation that was made by the Jews who lived then - the Septuagint. So to understand what Jesus might have said in Hebrew, you can simply study. |
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