Were the 70 translators of the Septuagint Israelites or jews?
Please post any links to reliable sources on all aspects of the LXX and it's history.
Thanks.
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These titles refer to a legendary story, according to which seventy or seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked (Talmud text implies the scholars were forced) by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria.[8]
This legend is first found in the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates,[9] and is repeated, with embellishments, by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus[10][11] and by various later sources, including St. Augustine.[12] A version of the legend is found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud:
King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned. He entered each one's room and said: "Write for me the Torah of Moshe, your teacher". God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.[13]
Philo of Alexandria, who relied extensively on the Septuagint,[14] says that the number of scholars was chosen by selecting six scholars from each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Staropramen wrote:^^^Thanks Mark!!
EnemyofEdom wrote:So, the jews claim the 70 are of their tribe because the Septuagint is the most ancient translation of the Old Testament and predates the Masoretic text? To keep with their lie, the Septuagint must have been translated by jews so they can claim everything as their own. When in truth, they created the Masoretic after the Septuagint because Judaism, as Ignatius of Antioch said, is a corruption of Christianity.
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