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Such corrections and additions, Dr. Cross hints, are only the beginning. When the Qumran fragments are finally edited, scholars will have for the first time a roughly contemporary Hebrew check on the Greek Septuagint, for centuries the bulwark of Old Testament translators. They will also have some important revisions to make in the work of those scholars who had a habit of trying to solve a corrupted Biblical text by speculation on the translator's sociological background. The entire job of editing the Qumran texts, now being done jointly by the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem...
Ever since 280 B.C., when 70 learned Jews of Alexandria translated the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek (the Septuagint), tinkering with the Holy Bible has been a prime occupation of scholars. The King James Version, most familiar to the English-speaking world (ordered by the late Queen Elizabeth's pious, witch-hunting successor), is a 17th-Century revision in the light of then available Greek and Hebrew texts. The Revised Version (1881, 1885) was meant to bring the Bible up to date; the Goodspeed-Smith "American" Bible of a few years ago did so even more thoroughly. Last...
Last week the court refused to give this to Mr. MacVeagh. The reasons for the refusal were based upon the nature of the Apocrypha, or lost books, of the Bible. Certain of these, incorporated into the Old Testament by errant Hebrews and written down in the Greek Septuagint which is otherwise merely a translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, were included by St. Jerome in his Latin Vulgate. Theologians in the middle ages questioned the authenticity of the Apocrypha which St. Jerome had accepted. The Council of Trent (1545-63) established their repute, since which time they have remained...
Gasquet Bible. St. Jerome (A.D. 340-420) translated the Old Testament not from the Greek Septuagint but from the Hebrew original; the New Testament he took from its original Greek. In Bethlehem, where he had journeyed from Rome, he lived like a hermit while he worked. His translation gradually became recognized by the early Church with a sanction more universal than that bestowed upon any of the other Latin scriptures, which were, for the most part, localized and incomplete...
Semitic Conference. The Septuagint. Mr. H. L. Calhoun. Semitic Museum...