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25 Jul 2018
The Septuagint is not a special or purer version of scripture, but merely a translation.

But the Septuagint is nothing special. He's selling it as if it's like a purer version of Scripture. It's the original Bible. It's what the apostles would have read. It's the hipster's Bible. They say that over and over and over again. It is nothing special at all. All it is is a name given to the translation of the Pentateuch or the Torah, which later grew to include many of the rest of what would be the Old Testament, like Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and the like.

25 Jul 2018
The Septuagint is a translation of existing religious texts, not a special or purer version of Scripture.

But the Septuagint is nothing special. He's selling it as if it's like a purer version of Scripture. It's the original Bible. It's what the apostles would have read. It's the hipster's Bible. They say that over and over and over again. It is nothing special at all. All it is is a name given to the translation of the Pentateuch or the Torah, which later grew to include many of the rest of what would be the Old Testament, like Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and the like. It also contained books that we later sent to the pseudepigrapha, like Tobit and 1st through 4th Maccabees. The Septuagint is nothing special, really. It's just a collection and translation of already existing religious texts and writings that was the result of a project started in approximately 300 BCE that's concluded around 132 BCE.