Altering Scripture

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In the early church there was at least one who accused the Jews of intentionally changing the wording of scripture. I have read this quote before but cannot seem to find it now. This was with respect to differences between the received Jewish LXX and the developing Jewish Masoretic texts.

Does anyone know who that was and was he joined by others ?
 
luciasclay said:
In the early church there was at least one who accused the Jews of intentionally changing the wording of scripture. I have read this quote before but cannot seem to find it now. This was with respect to differences between the received Jewish LXX and the developing Jewish Masoretic texts.

Does anyone know who that was and was he joined by others ?
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The Torah was written in Hebrew. The septuigint has no authority.
 
I could be wrong on this but wasn’t it some of the passages in Isaiah?
 
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I could be wrong on this but wasn’t it some of the passages in Isaiah?
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There are many passages, including in Isaiah, where the wording between LXX and Masoretic is indeed different.

But there was an early father ( or perhaps two ) who made the allegation that the Jews were redacting and changing their text to cause this. Without stepping into the debate of whether that was an accurate charge or not I’m trying to find the father(s) who said this.
 
geometer said:
The Torah was written in Hebrew. The septuigint has no authority.
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That means that the Jews in the diaspora who requested this translation be made from the Jewish authorities in Jerusalem were deliberately misled into apostasy by those same authorities. Does that seem likely to anyone?
 
The Torah was written in Hebrew. The septuigint has no authority
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This is a meaningless declaration.

Libraries have no “authority,” people have authority. There was no authority in ancient Israel to determine a canon.

The Pharassees had a canon that was different from the canon of the Saduccees, that was different from the Essene canon, that differed from the canon used in the Diaspora.

I’d almost be willing to wager that each synagogue had its own canon - given the fact that scripture was a collection of scrolls and that they were very expensive.
 
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