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Originally Posted by coksiw
I have been reading about this topic. I found a table with pretty much all quotes of the OT in the NT. I find that some are very close to the LXX but other are actually closer to MT text, and other are partially in both:
https://www.kalvesmaki.com/LXX/NTChart.htm
I also found out of scholars saying that LXX was quoted by Josephus, and that is a great witness of the existence of LXX before the church. However, I found that contradictory with this:
https://ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-10.htm
If Josephus quoted the LXX, why he needed to say that he translated from the Hebrew as a continuous practice? Is he lying? Are the analysis of modern scholars incorrect? Are scholars assuming their analysis are correct and assuming Josephus is lying? What's going on here? |
Going back to my first post, looking at the stats from my previous post of Hebrew unique quotes in the NT not found in LXX, and the fact that Josephus used Hebrew texts to write his writings, and little hints like Jesus mentioning the Hebrew Bible by referring to events that happened in the first (Genesis) and last book (Chronicles) (the LXX has a different book order) in
Matthew 23:35-36, I can come to the conclusion that the Hebrew Bible was in fact actively used during Jesus' time in Israel.