My thoughts at this point, being simply musing based on some information that I have read:
The story of the LXX (the seventy) seems very fanciful on its surface. The idea that someone could gather 6 scholars from each tribe, long after 10 of the tribes were totally scattered to every nation, seems to me to be impossible. The claim that it was produced in 72 days by 72 individuals whose separate translations were identical (without collaboration) is impossible outside the direct control of the Holy Spirit. If that were the case, then there would not be the significant errors and omissions present. These arguments against its origin weaken its validity as Scripture.
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