The Septuagint — Near Eastern History

About this episode

The episode discusses the preservation of the Word of God through the Septuagint and its historical significance.

Hosts Corey J. Mahler coreyjmahler.com @CoreyJMahler Woe aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe The Word of God has been preserved — miraculously — down through the ages, faithfully transmitted forward from past generations to us. This is according to God’s promises, and yet God nowhere (in the Old Testament) says which language He will use to accomplish this. Many have long claimed that God used Hebrew to do this, but the Hebrew language was never a true written language until the 20th century and, above and beyond this, the Hebrew language was dead for more than two thousand years. How, then, did God preserve His Word? He caused it to be translated into Greek — the Septuagint (LXX). It was the Septuagint that was used by our forefathers in the faith, by the Apostles, and by Christ Himself. In this first of our four-part (really five-part) series on the Septuagint, we cover the history of the Hebrew language and the history of the LXX up until about AD 1000; we trace how the so-called “Masoretic Text” was infiltrated into the Church by those who deny Christ, curse His sheep, and serve another master, and how, tragically, Christians failed to prevent this and permitted the MT to supplant…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey J. Mahler, Woe

Topics covered

• Septuagint
• Hebrew language history
• Christianity
• Translation of the Bible
• Eschatology

Keywords

• Septuagint
• Hebrew language
• Masoretic Text
• Christian faith
• Bible translation
• Eschatology
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Septuagint, Masoretic Text, Letter of Aristeas

Places: Greece

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