RE: god ;)
February 20, 2010 at 3:21 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2010 at 3:23 am by Minimalist.)
(February 19, 2010 at 10:30 pm)tackattack Wrote: lol no of course not amph, but that would be dependant on your definition of days.
There are no Hebraic Torah texts prior to the Dead Sea Scrolls which date to the Hasmonean era in the second century, BC. The earliest texts we have are the Greek Septuagint written in the early 3d century BC in Greek. There is nothing but "tradition" to back up the story of Greek scholars in Alexandria "translating" the Torah for inclusion in Ptolemy I's Great Library. For all we know, the Greek scholars wrote down oral stories for the first time translating them into Greek as they did so. In any case, all we have is the Greek version for the start. By the way, at the time the former Persian province of Yehud was under the control of the Ptolemaic dynasty although within a century they were to be overrun by the Seleucid Greeks.
Perhaps we need to find out what word the Greeks used for "day?"
