One of Gail Riplinger’s complaints is that I said that the King James Version was translated from the Leningrad Codex from the 11th century AD. She says, No that’s wrong. The King James was translated from the Ben Chayyim Hebrew, not the Leningrad Codex.
Ok? So I’m thinking, how does that help your point? The Ben Chayyim is an even NEWER Hebrew text, not older. The Ben Chayyim dates to the 1500’s, even later than the Leningrad Codex.
So my point still stands, that the oldest complete Hebrew text that modern versions (ESV, NIV, NASB) ARE based on is the Leningrad Codex. The Ben Chayyim that the King James Version is based on is even newer than that.
But the early churches were using the Greek Septuagint which WAS translated a few hundred years before Christ, and therefore must have been translated from an older copy of the Hebrew, older than the Leningrad Codex, older than the Aleppo Codex, older than the Ben Chayyim, older than EVERY HEBREW TEXT that translators use today.
And this older Hebrew text MUST have included these extra 650 years in the Genealogies of Genesis 11. That’s the only way that they could have ended up in the Greek Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the writings of Flavius Josephus.
If this “error” (if it was an error) originated with the Greek Septuagint, there’s no way that it would have made its way into the Samaritan Pentateuch, since the Samaritan text is a Hebrew text that pre-dates the Greek Septuagint itself. And Josephus wasn’t using the Greek Septuagint either. Josephus was given the Hebrew scrolls from the temple. When Titus Flavius destroyed the temple in 70 AD, he gave the Hebrew scrolls to Josephus. So why does Josephus side with the Greek numbers in Genesis 11?
By the way, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the original genuine numbers of Josephus agree with the Hebrew in Genesis 5. So I’m not so confident that the Greek Septuagint is right about the extra 500 or so years before the Flood. But after the Flood? We definitely have 3 textual witnesses for the 650 years.
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One of Gail Riplinger’s complaints is that I said that the King James Version was translated from the Leningrad Codex from the 11th century AD. She says, No that’s wrong. The King James was translated from the Ben Chayyim Hebrew, not the Leningrad Codex.
Ok? So I’m thinking, how does that help your point? The Ben Chayyim is an even NEWER Hebrew text, not older. The Ben Chayyim dates to the 1500’s, even later than the Leningrad Codex.
So my point still stands, that the oldest complete Hebrew text that modern versions (ESV, NIV, NASB) ARE based on is the Leningrad Codex. The Ben Chayyim that the King James Version is based on is even newer than that.
But the early churches were using the Greek Septuagint which WAS translated a few hundred years before Christ, and therefore must have been translated from an older copy of the Hebrew, older than the Leningrad Codex, older than the Aleppo Codex, older than the Ben Chayyim, older than EVERY HEBREW TEXT that translators use today.
And this older Hebrew text MUST have included these extra 650 years in the Genealogies of Genesis 11. That’s the only way that they could have ended up in the Greek Septuagint, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the writings of Flavius Josephus.
If this “error” (if it was an error) originated with the Greek Septuagint, there’s no way that it would have made its way into the Samaritan Pentateuch, since the Samaritan text is a Hebrew text that pre-dates the Greek Septuagint itself. And Josephus wasn’t using the Greek Septuagint either. Josephus was given the Hebrew scrolls from the temple. When Titus Flavius destroyed the temple in 70 AD, he gave the Hebrew scrolls to Josephus. So why does Josephus side with the Greek numbers in Genesis 11?
By the way, the Samaritan Pentateuch and the original genuine numbers of Josephus agree with the Hebrew in Genesis 5. So I’m not so confident that the Greek Septuagint is right about the extra 500 or so years before the Flood. But after the Flood? We definitely have 3 textual witnesses for the 650 years.
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