Septuagint

[Van]

They may have well been copying copies of copies. But they were excellent copies existing in the 1st century AD. They were far more accurate than what has come to us . There are no errors originally in the New Testament. That includes quotations of the Old Covenant into the New Covenants writings. The Apostles and their companions had far more accurate manuscript than what has come down to us in the later Masoretic Tradition as well as our Septuagint Manuscripts.

More nonsense, the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that our copies today are very close to the copies available near the first century.

Your claim the Greek NT references were exactly what the original OT autographs in Hebrew where is something you made up.

 

[Conan]

More nonsense, the Dead Sea Scrolls proved that our copies today are very close to the copies available near the first century.

Your claim the Greek NT references were exactly what the original OT autographs in Hebrew where is something you made up.

The Dead Sea Scrolls prove that all Text types existed side by side in the 1st century AD. The Septuagint, the pre-Masoretic Text, the Samaritan and some independents not exactly aligned with the others. The Apostles and their companions used the Original Text in the New Testament writings . It was usually closer to the Septuagint than Masoretic text, but not always.

 

[Logos1560]

While during the period 200 B. C. until 100 A. D., there existed a proto-Masoretic Hebrew text that was later standardized into the post-A. D. 800 Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls provide clear evidence that there also existed another Hebrew text that is the presumed Hebrew source for the old Greek Septuagint.

James VanderKam and Peter Flint maintained that ‘the many biblical scrolls can be placed in one of our textual categories: (a) similar to the Masoretic Text, (b) similar to the Hebrew text translated by the Septuagint, (c) similar to the Samaritan Pentateuch, and (d) mixed or non-aligned (showing no consistent alignment with any of the other three)” (Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, p. 140). Yosef Ofer wrote: “The three most important ancient sources for the text of Scripture are the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint and the Samaritan version of the Torah” (Masora on Scripture, p. 170). Yosef Ofer observed: “We find a variety of versions in the Dead Sea Scrolls. All three types of text that are known from different witnesses—the ‘masoretic type’, the ‘Septuagint type’ and the ‘Samaratin type’ (for the Torah)—are represented in the scrolls, and there may even be additional types and sub-types” (p. 176).