Re: LXX

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Sat Jun 20 1998 - 09:36:59 EDT


At 10:19 AM 6/19/98 +0000, you wrote:

>Does anyone here doubt the authenticity of the LXX, i.e. is it generally
>accepted to be pre-NT, or is it as some claim 3rd century post-NT or
>beyond?

The LXX is definitely pre-NT. There is not a doubt of it.
If someone claims that it arose in the 3rd century CE, they have a tough
road to hoe, as mss dated paleographically to the 2nd c. BCE have been found
at Qumran!

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Pastor, Petros Baptist Church
Adjunct Professor of Bible,
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest@highland.net

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