Quote:Did you just say the OLD TESTAMENT was written in Greek?? Don't tell that to the jews.
Don't pull your usual xtian shit. I said the oldest fragments of texts that we have of that story are in Greek. It is known as the Septuagint and dates from the early 3d century BC and was most likely written in Alexandria. Prior to the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls the oldest Hebrew Torahs were the Masoretic texts from about 1100 AD.
In plain fact, we have no way of knowing if the torah was ever written down prior to the Septuagint. Perhaps it was an oral tradition until the Greeks came along and wrote it down? Whatever, it can be stated that as of this moment we have nothing to indicate that this story existed in Hebrew prior to the late second century BC when the earliest Dead Sea Scrolls were written. The Jews, once they developed a writing system of their own which was intricate enough to handle these ideas, may have copied it into Hebrew from the Greek.
Wouldn't that fuck up your belief system!
