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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo "And I have kings for my grandfathers and for my ancestors, the greater part of whom have been called high priests, looking upon their royal power as inferior to their office as priests; and thinking that the high priesthood is as much superior to the power ...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 11:38 am

There were only so many priests in Egypt. Philo was likely related to many of the translators not just one or two. It's simple math.

All of that is no argument.

But that is not true. The Hebrew and the Greek pentateuchs differ in their textual contents in many ways. And how do you explain that with Gmirkin's theory? Please indulge me with some mental gymnastics. If translators of the Hebrew Bible first five books into Greek had difficulty understanding the...

You understand how priestly families work. There were only a few in ancient Alexandria. They wouldn't have expanded, maybe they contracted. But like the Samaritans the same families were on top in 270 BCE and 40 CE. Three hundred years of the same people in charge. What bearing does that have upon ...

Tāranātha (1575–1634) was a Lama of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism. Last I checked Philo lived and walked in the same place the LXX was "written." He doesn't speak a word of Hebrew. He used onomastica. He knew the text was written in Hebrew. Why doesn't he know of one piece of evid...

I can't even imagine how the description of the dialogue between God and Moses would have taken place if Greek was assumed to be the original language. But in the model which we are discussing, Hebrew was assumed to be the orginal language but was not - because people pretended (and later came to b...

Here's what Philo said in English: And there is a very evident proof of this; for if Chaldaeans were to learn the Greek language, and if Greeks were to learn Chaldaean, and if each were to meet with those scriptures in both languages, namely, the Chaldaic and the translated version, they would admi...

So Philo of Alexandria, an erudite man who was well versed in the traditions of two cultures and languages is put on the same level as fucking moronic Americans who followed a con man and ran out of coffee. Give me a break. Taranatha was also learned in 2 cultures and their languages, but he accept...

Then why have you refused to consider the evidence which Gmirkin has cited, What is the evidence for the LXX being anything other than a translation? If it's so obvious and you buy into this theory based on careful consideration you surely can point to actual evidence that the LXX is not a translat...

Everyone in antiquity treated the text as a rendering of a/the Hebrew text. So much so that other translations emerged. Why would other translations emerge of the Hebrew if someone - anyone - knew that the LXX was a "co-exemplar." The answer is that at a very early date, i.e. ever since t...