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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone Quire, we are continuing our series on the Septuagint.

I apologize everyone who's been listening faithfully that we dropped out for a month after saying that the next

episode, this episode would be next week. That was about four weeks ago. We poured so much into

getting those two history episodes done that I naively assumed that the collection of texts that

we had ready to go for the Old Testament and the New Testament would be a cinch. And we got one week and then

two weeks into preparing for that and it just kind of became overwhelming. And so the second week of

preparation, we realized we're going to have to split this episode into multiple episodes. So

initially the plan was that this was going to be entirely the Old Testament looking at places

where the rabbinic text differs

from the Septuagint. What we realized was that there was so many of those that the only way

to deal with it was to break that up. So I was listening to an episode from last July where I said

that two horrible lies. One, I said that we would be doing the Septuagint series very soon,

nearly a year ago. And two, I said it was going to be in two parts, which in a sense is true,

because the two parts are the history and then the Bible itself. We have now completed the

portion about the history. So episodes one and two are in the can. We're not going to touch history again.

And we deliberately didn't talk much about scripture at all. We didn't quote much at all because

we're segregating that for what we thought would be the final two episodes. The new plan,

and I think we're going to stick with this, so you can hold me to it and make fun me terribly

if I fail, if we fail. This is going to be a nine-part series.

It's going to be humorously seven plus two. So we still have the intro that we finished episode

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