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The Septuagint — Near Eastern History

Stone Choir

Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      The Word of God has been preserved — miraculously — down through the ages, faithfully transmitted forward from past generations to us. This is according to God’s promises, and yet God nowhere (in the Old Testament) says which language He will use to accomplish this. Many have long claimed that God used Hebrew to do this, but the Hebrew language was never a true written language until the 20th century and, above and beyond this, the Hebrew language was dead for more than two thousand years. How, then, did God preserve His Word? He caused it to be translated into Greek — the Septuagint (LXX).

      It was the Septuagint that was used by our forefathers in the faith, by the Apostles, and by Christ Himself. In this first of our four-part (really five-part) series on the Septuagint, we cover the history of the Hebrew language and the history of the LXX up until about AD 1000; we trace how the so-called “Masoretic Text” was infiltrated into the Church by those who deny Christ, curse His sheep, and serve another master, and how, tragically, Christians failed to prevent this and permitted the MT to supplant the LXX; and we begin to make our case for a return to the Word of God as He has preserved it and as the Church has always received it — in Greek, as the Septuagint.

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      Further Reading

      • Letter of Aristeas [Wikipedia]
      • Although we do not (yet) have an English translation using the LXX that we unreservedly recommend, we recognize that some will want a version for the sake of comparison. This is one option: The Lexham English Septuagint
        • The Brenton edition can be found in several places online.

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      0:00.0

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

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:44.4

      Today's Stone Choir is episode 100.

      0:48.0

      This in many ways will be the culmination of everything that we've been doing for the last couple of years. This is the first

      0:56.9

      of a four, probably five-part series on the Septuagint. And if you happen to have been said,

      1:04.4

      this episode is the first one you should listen to. I'm going to ask you to stop right here and go

      1:08.7

      back and listen to the previous episode,

      1:13.4

      number 99 that we did call the context window.

      1:21.2

      The episode that we recorded a couple weeks ago, episode 99, is effectively my introduction to this episode,

      1:28.5

      wherein we lay out some of the premises for the approach that we're going to take as we make this argument. And while the content of that episode is not Septuagia specific, it is very much specific to how we think, how we process things.

      1:36.9

      Basically the point I make in that episode that Corey and I make is that we're going to cover so much ground here over the next few episodes as we explain what the Septuagint is and is not,

      1:48.4

      what scripture is and is not, and when we as a church have been doing versus what we should have been doing,

      1:55.0

      there's going to be so much ground that we cover that no one can possibly keep it all in your head.

      1:59.3

      And that's not because anybody's stupid. I can't keep it all in my head. And that's not because anybody's stupid.

      2:01.1

      I can't keep it all in my head. We've been working on this for 16 months. I've probably spent

      2:05.5

      close to a thousand hours, at least 800 hours of study and preparation and just getting ready

      2:11.3

      to be able to explain this stuff. I don't say that to impress anyone. It's just that what we're going

      2:17.3

      to present is a timely condensed version of the amount of stuff

      2:19.9

      that there is to say about these things.

      2:22.0

      And so it's perfectly fine that you're not going to be able to keep it all straight as we're

      2:26.7

      delivering it to you orally.

      2:28.7

      The purpose of the last episode 99, what I'm going to reiterate here, is one of the

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