The Septuagint — Timelines and Other Alterations

About this episode

The episode discusses the alterations made by rabbis to the Septuagint, focusing on timelines and specific books of the Old Testament.

Hosts Corey J. Mahler coreyjmahler.com @CoreyJMahler Woe aka Eschatologuy @treblewoe The rabbis made a number of different kinds of edits to their version of what some call ‘Scripture’ (i.e., the Rabbinic or Masoretic Text). In some places, they fiddled with numbers, in some they changed names, and in still others they deleted entire sections of the text. In this final episode of the Old Testament portion of the Septuagint series, we examine the changes the rabbis made to the timelines (particularly the genealogies), the Book of Job, the Book of Esther, and a few other miscellaneous matters. The next two episodes will round out the LXX series with an examination of how the New Testament uses the Old (to the surprise of none, Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint), and then the final episode in the series will give a roadmap for where we, as the Church, go from here. Subscribe to the podcast here. Show Notes Esther: LXX and MT Compared See Also Letter: Origen to Africanus Luther on the Rabbinic Book of Esther Further Reading Esther (Brenton) Esther (NETS) [PDF] Calendar Systems: Anno Domini Anno Mundi Byzantine Calendar “Setting the Record Straight on the Primeval Chronology…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey J. Mahler, Woe

Topics covered

• Septuagint
• Rabbinic Text
• Biblical Edits
• Genealogies
• Old Testament
• Christianity

Keywords

• Septuagint
• Rabbinic Text
• Book of Job
• Book of Esther
• genealogies
• Old Testament
• biblical edits

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Job, Book of Esther, Septuagint, Rabbinic or Masoretic Text

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