I agree. Lots of words, and the more you write the more likely mistakes are to be made
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Note: Edersheim himself was buffeted by the common Greek OT error and while skeptical of "the so-called LXX version" he was not emphasizing how the Greek had been smoothed and tampered to the NT. However his basic points on Luke and Isaiah are excellent
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I've read Edersheim, and the above caused me to interrupt my breakfast and walk the 12 feet to my book shelf. Edersheim says of the Septuagint
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..we have here the Greek translation of the Old Testament, venerable not only as the oldest, but as that which at the time of Jesus held the place of our Authorized Version, as as such is often, although freely, quoted in teh New Testament.
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I'll stop typing from the Life and Times to finish eating.