One Book at a Time: Dates, Translators, and Profiles
The Greek biblical books do not share one translator, date, or method. Before a Greek difference can be treated as evidence for another Hebrew text, the translation profile…
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What Greek Scripture Existed Before Christ?
Early papyrus and parchment fragments attest Greek translations of particular Torah books. They do not attest one complete, uniform pre-Christian Greek Bible identical to a later codex or…
Open record →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.
Open record →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.
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