G'day. I'm Gary Stevens.

Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.

Afterlife episode 18, King David and the two traditions.

Gahe guys. I'm back with Gil Cadrone of a podcast of Biblical Proportions.

A few episodes ago, I mentioned the two distinct literary traditions behind the Old Testament or Tanakh.

Most important is the rabbinic Hebrew language tradition, known as the Masoretic tradition.

The other tradition is the Greek language Bible, known as the Septuagint.

This was translated from some unknown Hebrew original.

In many instances, the Septuagint draws upon ancient Hebrew documents that differ from those

used by the rabbis.

While the two traditions are in broad agreement, sometimes they diverge

quite significantly. One of those places is in the origin story of King David. In this

episode, Gil and I explore these differences.

Hello people. How you all doing? Hello Gary. How are you doing? I'm just fine.

Together it's Gary Stevens. It's goody-dron. And today we are, it's sort of an extension of the

episode we did on Jeremiah and the two traditions. And the letter of Jeremiah as well.

And the letter of Jeremiah as well.

Today, we're looking at the origin story of King David and the two traditions.

Now, the two traditions are the Greek language Septuagint, which was started sometime

in Hellenistic times and the Hebrew Masoretic tradition.

We're not quite sure when that actually started, but there you go.

The two traditions differ a fair amount in the origin story of King David.

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