Septuagint Question

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I am wanting a translation of the Septuagint, not a translation modified by reference to the Masoretic text; just the Septuagint. Which translation would you recommend?
 
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Considering the myriad of differences between the Masoretic text and the older texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, why do you think the Septuagint has been so ignored? In many ways, it is our oldest version, and most relevant for Christians.
 
There was a time when most scholars just focused primarily on the MT, but with the recent discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the LXX has increased in importance. Some translations, including the NRSV, have begun to follow a more eclectic text for the OT. Thus, while still using the MT as its base, there are many more places where a rendering is used which agrees with the LXX and DSS. Certainly the fact that Oxford University Press released the NETS is an indication of the growing awareness of the usefulness of the LXX. Time will tell however.
 
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Thank you for your responses.
Considering the myriad of differences between the Masoretic text and the older texts, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, why do you think the Septuagint has been so ignored? In many ways, it is our oldest version, and most relevant for Christians.
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The Septuagint is my favorite OT version by far. It was the choice of the NT authors and the apostolic Fathers as well as many of the Early Church Fathers after them. The biggest error against the Septuagint is when the idea came about that the Hebrew version of the Jews was thought to be the original reading just because it was in Hebrew. St. Jerome made that error somewhat, and many people still do today. The Dead Sea Scrolls showed that the errors that people thought the Septuagint had was not actually errors but a translation from a more ancient Hebrew and Aramaic text than what the Jews were using centuries after the Septuagint was done.

By the way the Septuagint clears up many so-called Bible contradictions.
 
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Many places in the Hebrew Masoretic Text you will find where parallel passages do not share the same details such as amounts, years, and various other related numbers. I gave a rebuttal to some Bible contradictions a while back and I found some places where the LXX clarified some of them litteralchristianlibrary.wetpaint.com/page/Answers+to+the+so-called+%22Bible+contradictions%22

Scroll down the page of the link and read the answers given for the headings below…

How many stalls and horsemen?

Snails do not melt- Septuagint reading clairifies

Years of famine

**How old was Jehoiachin when he began to reign? **

When did Baasha die?

How old was Ahaziah when he began to reign?
 
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