[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

Originally Posted by TimV

Lots of words, and the more you write the more likely mistakes are to be made.

So what is the supposed "mistake" ? My point was precisely that while Edersheim's overall view of the Greek OT was faulty:

"Note: Edersheim himself was buffeted by the common Greek OT error"

he gives us tremendous and helpful insight into the reading of the Torah scroll by the Lord Jesus, described in Luke 4.

You dishonor your posts when you falsely rush to accuse of a "mistake" apparently not even reading carefully. There may be some mistakes here and there in my posts, however my writing on Edersheim above was accurate.

Here is Edersheim's quote about "the so-called LXX version".

http://books.google.com/books?id=TudS94P8swMC&pg=PA26
In Egypt, which was then under the rule of Euergetes, he found the so-called LXX. version completed, when he set himself to a similar translation of the Hebrew work of his grandfather.

Edersheim missed a lot in this section. e.g. He did not even notice that Josephus indicates the lack of the Greek OT "histories" even decades after the NT was written. Nor the gross tampering of Psalm 14, showing how what is the so-called "LXX" was NT-'smoothed'. However my purpose was not to go into those issues, but to stick more with Luke 4 and Isaiah 61 and the 'midrashic' tapestry of the Lord Jesus Christ, accurately reported by Luke.

As for your concern about "lots of words", sometimes the truth is helped by carefully and properly reading a number of different perspectives, and quoting the full, related Scriptures. Seeing that you only jumped to one point to try to falsely accuse, I am not surprised that you received little from the above. The post was composed more for those with a heart for the purity and accuracy and truth of the Scriptures.

Notice how Brian similarly put his foot in his mouth, since he has no idea what language or text was original and true in either the NT or the OT. Brian has no text to "believe what was written" since Brian does not know what was written ! Anything can be redacted, and who knows, other books can be included as your "personal conviction/preference/whim" canon, sections can be added or (snipped) as well. Brian has no authority base beyond his personal whims to determine if the Hebrew text is the pure word of God or maybe the Greek OT at times, or maybe something else, maybe Tobit. Nor can he ever determine if the Received Text NT is right, or maybe the alexandrian corruptions, or maybe something else. Brian does not even know whether Jesus said "but by every word of God" in Luke's account. Despite its absolutely overwhelming attestation (covered, btw, quite well by Dean John Burgon and Marty Shue, in articles that truly highlight the textual absurdities of the modern version corruptions).

Shalom,
Steven Avery