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cato1006's avatar

Do you have anything on John 8:58?

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Adam Roberts's avatar

I think you have it backward on the use of the Septuagint among early Christians.

Hellenistic Jewish literature formed the ideological framework for the New Testament authors, as noted in the previous chapter. Almost all of the direct citations, however, come from the Scriptures that were later canonized in the Hebrew Bible. Many studies on the New Testament authors’ use of the Jewish Scriptures have demonstrated conclusively that the writers most often, if not always, used the Septuagint instead of the Hebrew Scriptures. In only a few cases is the question still open. Given the conclusions regarding access to textual sources noted in the previous chapter, however, an overly dependent reliance on textual sources is cautioned. The use of the Septuagint is important because the different emphases and even different text forms of the Septuagint mean that the New Testament authors were carrying forward ideas that would not have been possible had they been using the Hebrew.

Law, Timothy Michael, 'The Septuagint in the New Testament', When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible (2013; online edn, Oxford Academic, 26 Sept. 2013), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199781713.003.0009, accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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