The Septuagint, Explained | Septuagint vs. Masoretic Text
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In this episode, Michael and Zach continue their series on the Septuagint by examining what happens when the ancient Greek Old Testament and the Masoretic Text behind most modern English Bibles do not agree. They begin by explaining what the Masoretic Text actually is and why its later standardization does not mean its underlying Hebrew tradition is late. From there, they explore how the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed that multiple Hebrew textual traditions circulated in antiquity, sometimes supporting the Septuagint against the later Masoretic reading. The discussion works through several important examples, including Deuteronomy 32:8 and the “sons of God,” Goliath’s height, Ezekiel 28:14, the seventy versus seventy-five people who entered Egypt, the shorter Greek edition of Jeremiah, and Psalm 151. Michael and Zach close by explaining how textual criticism weighs these differences and why textual variants are not a threat to biblical reliability, but part of the evidence scholars use to reconstruct the earliest attainable text.
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