RE: Chat with a creationist
May 7, 2012 at 4:59 am
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 5:05 am by DeeTee.)
Quote:I never said the Greeks translated. I'm not aware if any Greeks actually spoke Hebrew or not. I said that the Greeks ordered it to be translated for scholarly use.
Just so you know:
http://septuagint.net/
Quote:Septuagint - What is It?
Septuagint (sometimes abbreviated LXX) is the name given to the Greek translation of the Jewish Scriptures. The Septuagint has its origin in Alexandria, Egypt and was translated between 300-200 BC. Widely used among Hellenistic Jews, this Greek translation was produced because many Jews spread throughout the empire were beginning to lose their Hebrew language. The process of translating the Hebrew to Greek also gave many non-Jews a glimpse into Judaism. According to an ancient document called the Letter of Aristeas, it is believed that 70 to 72 Jewish scholars were commissioned during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus to carry out the task of translation. The term “Septuagint” means seventy in Latin, and the text is so named to the credit of these 70 scholars
I bolded the important words.
Quote:The fact( perhaps I should emphasize that) FACT remains that we do not have a single example of any of these writings which you are insisting were in "circulation." We have no examples of tomb inscriptions or artwork nor do we have references to any of it from surrounding cultures. The only place this shit exists is within the pages of the book itself..... sort of like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
The question is: what was the original hebrew Bible written on? We can rule out stone for now because we haven't found any inscribed works of stone.
We do have the siklver scrolls which gives us the evidence that the Hebrew scriptures existed long before the 6th century BC.
Again, just because we haven't found the hebrew Bible written on 10th century BC papyrus doesn't mean it did not exist prior to the septuagint. keep in mind that many classical works andmany ancient histories are accepted without question even though their original mss. and subsequent copies went out of existence 500 to 1000 or more years prior to the oldest copies we now possess.
See FF Bruce "The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?" and Lee Strobel "A Case For Christ" Both works record the huge gaps between supposed writing of these ancient works and the current copies still in existence.
