Sidetrack Episode 55 A Tale of Two Bibles

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4.4 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Sidetrack Episode 55 A Tale of Two BiblesDescription: Today we discuss two of the great textual translation traditions of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament. The Septuagint and the Masoretic text have fascinating histories, so let’s see how they are...

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0:00.0	Want to keep God's word with you wherever you go?
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0:21.7	Growing your faith every day.
0:23.1	Search for King James Bible Study, KJV, and download the app today. Episode 5, a tale of two Bibles.
0:48.8	A Tale of Two Bibles. Thank you for listening to the History of the Papacy and Agora Podcast Network member.
1:05.1	Go over to Agorapodcastnetwork.com to find more great thought-provoking and independent podcasts.
1:13.4	You can learn more about the history of the papacy at A2Z HistoryPage.com.
1:20.3	That's A-T-O-Z HistoryPage.com, which can also be found in the show notes.
1:26.7	You can connect and like all the social media
1:29.0	from there and link to iTunes, where you can leave a rating and review. Today we're going to talk
1:35.5	about the story of two Bibles, or more precisely two translations of the Hebrew Bible, or Old
1:42.3	Testament. This is a set of documents written long ago, used by a
1:46.6	small tribe living in the Levant, which would become the foundational documents for billions
1:52.5	upon billions of followers of three of the world's religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
2:00.0	What is this, two Bibles? Well, we're talking about two distinct
2:04.9	translation traditions of the original Hebrew. One is called the Septuagint and the other the
2:11.6	Masoretic text. We've talked a little bit about each of these translations and traditions in the past.
2:19.7	Today, though, Gary Stevens of the History and the Bible podcast and I really dig in to see where these two traditions developed from, how they're similar, and what are their differences.
2:31.3	We will also discuss what the differences between these two textual traditions
2:35.7	mean today, practically speaking. The translation of the Old Testament isn't an academic
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