Aristeas and the Seventy: What the Story Does—and Does Not—Prove
The Letter of Aristeas is an ancient Jewish defense of a Greek Torah, not a dated archival certificate for one complete and miraculously inspired Greek Old Testament.
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There Is No Single Object Called “the Septuagint”
“The Septuagint” is a useful name for a complex history, not the proper name of one uniform manuscript, translation event, or critical edition. Every claim must identify the…
Open record →Three Translation Supremacies, One Inversion
Latin-over-originals, English-over-originals, and Greek-translation-over-Hebrew differ greatly in history and evidence. They become the same formal error when a dependent version is made judge of its source.
Open record →The Translator Is Not a Prophet
Faithful translation is a ministerial work under inspired Scripture. It can truly communicate God’s Word without repeating inspiration, creating new revelation, or placing the translator above his source.
Open record →William Whitaker’s Rule for Every Translation
Whitaker’s answer to Vulgate supremacy is a universal rule: every version is received when it agrees with the inspired originals and corrected when it does not. He expressly…
Open record →What “Authentical” Means
In Westminster Confession 1.8, “authentical” does not mean merely ancient, useful, or respected. It names the preserved Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as the Church’s final textual court of…
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