Introduction to the Apocrypha and the Septuagint - Part One

[wbarquez]

The "young woman" in the Hebrew of Isaiah 7:14 was translated "virgin" in the Greek in the LXX. The author of Matthew 1:23 obviously used the LXX in citing the Old Testament. The Dead Sea Scrolls confirms the Hebrew sources of some LXX books. The deuterocanon was affirmed by the Council of Carthage in 397 A.D., which the Council of Trent in the 16th century merely confirmed.

[4dimensionalferrets]

@wbarquez Matthew cited the LXX because he was from Greece, spoke Greek and the LXX was the only Greek translation of the Old Testament.Claiming that the Septuagint is more authoritive than the MT because of that is like saying that the because the Pope(who i am using solely for the purpose of this analogy not because i trust him) read out of the NASB(which he didn't as far as i know) that must mean that it's more authoritive than the MT

[Lizard4410]

Every Judeo-Christian Bible that was written before Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405 CE) had the Apocrypha in it as canon. These ancient complete Bibles include the Peshitta, Septuagint, Dead Sea scrolls and Ethiopian Orthodox Bible.

[timothypjohnson]

Some very good things here, but contains a few errors. I'll point out the most serious.

Contrary to what is stated from 2:30, the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) was NOT the source text used to translate the Septuagint. The MT did not even exist at that time. It was a late, highly-edited, anti-septuagintal, anti-Christian version of the proto-Hebraic sources, edited between the 7th and 10th centuries AD. It's even worse than the already corrupt version St Jerome must have used c. 400 AD.

[ray7685]

@timothypjohnson I didn't find where he said that the MT was used to translate the LXX.

[gamesbok]

I will follow only human fathers of the Church. St. Augustine was a hippo.

[frontdesk123]

Thank you for this video. It was very interesting. According to your lecture, it would seem that the authoritative/acceptibility argument should be over with since the Dead Sea Scrolls confirm the Apocrypha's Hebrew origins.

[beholdtheageofold]

This class looks interesting. But he is not showing how the LXX altered and added which don't appear in the Hebrew.

[sordoeht]

2/3 of the New testament quotations of the Old testament were from the Septuagint,so if the apostles used it,why not Christians?and we also have tons of quotations from the Early church fathers, Matt. 22:25; Mark 12:20; Luke 20:29 - Gospel writers refer to the canonicity of Tobit 3:8 and 7:11 regarding the seven brothers,So one can't claim they are not Scriptures unless he wants to neglect all these.

[sordoeht]

2/3 of the New testament quotations of the Old testament were from the Septuagint,so if the apostles used it,why not Christians?and we also have tons of quotations from the Early church fathers, Matt. 22:25; Mark 12:20; Luke 20:29 - Gospel writers refer to the canonicity of Tobit 3:8 and 7:11 regarding the seven brothers,So one can't claim they are not Scriptures unless he wants to neglect all these.

[kiwichristian2009]

Judith falsely states that Nebuchadnezzar reigns over the Assyrians,whereas he ruled Babylon instead.Torbit could not have witnessed the division of Israel into the northern and southern kingdoms in 931BC(Tor1:4),and have been deported 200 years later in 734BC(Tor1:10).Ecc3:3 states that giving money forgives sins. This contradicts Christs' work on the cross. Jesus and the apostles quote 260 times from the 35 out of 39 OT books, yet they NEVER quoted the apocrypha.