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Why would the Hebrew have Yahweh and Gods and the Greek Lord and God?

How could the Hebrew have fire law in Persian and the Greek something completely different?

How could the same authors have written Moses was horned and Moses was glorified?

Gmirkin concurs with the long-established evidence that the Pentateuch was originally written in Hebrew and then translated into Greek. (There are usually clear signs that indicate if a work is a translation of another - syntax etc.) So why is Philo's report about a festival of translation misinfor...

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I thought Moses speaking Greek was my best argument. The pattern of using first words to identify a text was true also for Greek works especially poetry. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/beginnings-in-classical-literature/platos-first-words/8CB0516533363737340D4D7080A8447A As such, the LXX i...

Can we all at least be honest and admit that the only reason why this stupid idea that the LXX was an original exemplar rather than a translation crept into the discussion was because it "fits" with the notion that the Pentateuch borrowed from Greek writers? It doesn't make sense that Mose...

All of which brings up an interesting question. Does any physical representation of the ten commandments exist written in Greek? I don't know the answer. In ancient synagogues there was a visible representation of the Ten Commandments visible for all to see. https://cojs.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/...

The point again is that even by Gmirkin's model the LXX is still a translation. Unless you propose that the synagogues of Alexandria also had two "ten commandments" on display one in Hebrew and the other in Greek to illustrate that God sent out his message a thousand years earlier in the f...

Gmirkin asserts that the Jews were also wrong about when the Pentateuch was written and where, in that it was really written in Alklexandria circa 273 BCE But surely they must have believed, according to your proposed "parallel Earth history," that Moses wrote in Greek for the LXX to be a...