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Yes, I believe strongly that there was a Greek Penteteuch in the 1st century in some lands.


I think that the whole Greek OT was available fairly widely. This is the opinion of the King James Bible translators.

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Hebrew and Aramaic being the common languages of the people in Israel


While there is plenty of evidence in the NT to show that Hebrew was spoken in Juda, there is no indication that a language called "Aramaic" was spoken there. We can conject that "Syriack" was still being spoken by Jews in Babylon, but in Acts 2 Medes, Elamites and dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Juda (NOTE) are also said to be understanding some of the UNKNOWN tongues, i.e. unknown to the Apostles, who spoke Hebrew and Greek. This in the must have been Syriack.

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As for the supposed benefits of the Greek OT for NT studies and translation, they are limited almost entirely to unusual words, where the Latin, Syriac and Greek are all helpful to give us the true English Bible.


Very strongly agree.

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Of course those with mastery in Greek might overemphasize what fits their own skills, the LXX lists are utter confusion on the basic issue of the identity of the ... OT


Yes, I think that is why some KJBO people think the BC LXX is a myth, because they are equating the LXX with the modernist twisting of Scripture. As I said before, my parents denied the existance of dinosaurs because they were central in the evolutionary story. One day, when I saw a film by the Creation Science Foundation, I saw that dinosaurs were real and that there was a PROPER INTERPRETATION about them that was based on the Bible.

We know that the Jews did tamper with their texts in order to deny Messianic prophecies as had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

I wonder if there are any extant Greek fragments of the OT other than the five books of Moses from the DSS/other BC or First Century sources.