RE: The first Christians weren't Bible Christians
March 25, 2014 at 11:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2014 at 11:10 pm by rightcoaster.)
(March 24, 2014 at 5:43 am)Aractus Wrote: ... Paul seems to quote from the proto LXX ...
I believe that Paul ... made use of a proto-LXX
Someone here pointed me to a book by Hyam Maccoby on Paul as mythologizer, the true inventor of Christianity (and quite the opportunist and liar). Maccoby makes, inter many alia, the interesting observation that if Paul was really a Pharisee trained by Gamaliel he'd not have used the LXX. In some of the letters (those agreed not pseudonymous) he used LXX phrases that differ from their Hebrew counterparts, so that the Hebrew text was not his source. I can't recall them, and finding the specific cites would require drudgery.
(March 24, 2014 at 9:50 pm)Aractus Wrote: Still waiting...
As I see it Protestants just restored the OT to the Hebrew scriptures as it was for first century Jews and the first Christians, undoing the changes to the OT made by successive iterations of translations and revisions.
Aractus, if the Protestants did all that noble restoration, why do so many of their translations still have Isaiah 7:14 so wrong, and so very few have it right?
