Hebrew OT Text

[Paul Younan]

November 22, 2004

I conclude that the Masoretic text is quite reliable, even though POT and LXX may be similarly different in certain places. Does that mean that it is possible that the POT was translated from LXX?

Otto

Impossible, since the POT contains too many Hebraicisms. It is rather awkward Aramaic, as if translated directly from Hebrew and it doesn't even bother to translate some Hebrew phrases, simply transliterating them. (i.e., the "I am that I am" at the burning bush, etc.)

Where the POT and LXX agree against the MSS, it is likely that they were both drawn from an old Hebrew source that contained a variant, or an old Hebrew source that was changed by the Masoretes.