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I have among the most creative minds at this forum and I can't see a possible way that Alexandrian Jews had anything other than the understanding that God delivered to Moses a Hebrew "ten utterances," that Moses and God spoke Hebrew to one another and that Moses wrote their Pentateuch in ...

What do you bring to the discussion? Do you think Jews were stupid enough to think that Moses handed the Israelites a Greek Pentateuch? How isn't the LXX a translation? How is that even conceivable? I bring a willingness to consider evidence and criticall assess traditions which you naively accept ...

Whether consciously or unconsciously, presenting Jews----or their "Elders"----as uniquely dishonest is, in my view, a grave and dangerous mistake. ABuddhist is correct about one thing: this forum allows him or her to use that name. In the "say hi" thread AB wrote, March 20, 2023...

But history is filled with reports. Why focus on THIS report which, let's be honest, is not very suspicious. Everyone knows that Hebrew is the language of the Jews, the Pentateuch and the holy writ of the Jews. To accuse Philo or the Jews of dishonesty with respect to the LXX is quite incredible. I...

I see. So it can't be that Jews were telling the truth. Why not? Why can't the Jews be telling the truth? Like when they count 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust and they build Holocaust Memorials and develop PR campaigns can Jews be believed or does the last word go to "independent research...

A story that was universally known, universally attested to. The point is that it can't be argued that the Letter of Aristeas "misinformed" its readers and was responsible for the "misinformation." The only explanation now was the Jewish community actively promoting misinformati...

Consider evidence which, if true, would contradict your views. This is proof for the LXX as a translation. It is explicit and Philo saw the event. It was in the most public place in Alexandria. Everyone saw it. Not just Philo. Unless of course Philo was lying or hallucinating. Some hypothesis. If y...

Consider evidence which, if true, would contradict your views. This is proof for the LXX as a translation. It is explicit and Philo saw the event. It was in the most public place in Alexandria. Everyone saw it. Not just Philo. Unless of course Philo was lying or hallucinating. Some hypothesis. If p...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Tue Mar 21, 2023 10:13 am Are you suggesting the festival of the translation of the Seventy at Pharos as described in Life of Moses was a hallucination on Philo's part? That he "imagined" the whole thing? Sheesh.

No. I am suggesting that he was reporting a not-true stoy which he erroneously thought to be true.

Imagine hundreds if not thousands of Jews and proselytes making a big deal about the translation of the LXX in THE MOST PUBLIC site in Alexandria EVERY YEAR for 300 years. https://cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/images/1st_DrMbGIH.width-800.png How can it possibly be argued that all these people over ...