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The Septuagint — Timelines and Other Alterations

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Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 201 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      The rabbis made a number of different kinds of edits to their version of what some call ‘Scripture’ (i.e., the Rabbinic or Masoretic Text). In some places, they fiddled with numbers, in some they changed names, and in still others they deleted entire sections of the text. In this final episode of the Old Testament portion of the Septuagint series, we examine the changes the rabbis made to the timelines (particularly the genealogies), the Book of Job, the Book of Esther, and a few other miscellaneous matters.

      The next two episodes will round out the LXX series with an examination of how the New Testament uses the Old (to the surprise of none, Jesus and the Apostles used the Septuagint), and then the final episode in the series will give a roadmap for where we, as the Church, go from here.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

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

      0:41.1

      And I'm still Woe. On today's Stone Quire, we are continuing our series on the Septuagint with a discussion of some alterations to content of a couple key books in the Old Testament, as well as alterations

      0:56.4

      to the timelines of really the history of humanity, and particularly the history of the Old

      1:02.6

      Testament chronology, which alters things including the beginning of time itself.

      1:08.3

      So we'll talk about that a little bit. Before we get into the content, I want to

      1:13.1

      just give a brief recap of where we have been, including where we've been for last month. I'm very

      1:18.3

      sorry that we haven't had an episode for a while. Something blows up every time we try to record

      1:23.4

      the day that we are going to record whatever day that happens to be. It's pretty much the worst day of my life.

      1:29.2

      So I'm not going to wind up being a podcaster because it's the easiest job in the world. But it's embarrassing that I still can't get it done. I lost my voice 15 minutes into recording last week. My voice is still weak, which stinks because I have no margin of air. even my voice is strong, it's not strong.

      1:44.4

      So I'm probably going to sort of peter out towards the end of this, but we're going to get the still weak, which stinks because I have no margin of error. Even my voice is strong. It's not strong.

      1:44.4

      So I'm probably going to sort of peter out towards the end of this, but we're going to get this

      1:48.4

      done no matter what. The Septuagint framework that we eventually evolved as we were looking at

      1:55.5

      this massive content we've been looking at for now the last 18 months. We began in episode 99

      2:00.7

      with introducing the concept

      2:02.9

      of the context window, basically say there's going to be so much here you can't keep it all in

      2:08.0

      your head. That's nothing to be ashamed of or worried about, but there's a lot going on here

      2:14.3

      beyond just how a couple verses changed. And so, you know, we can fix those in our

      2:18.7

      Bibles and we don't have to worry about it. A Septuagint thing is irrelevant. In episode 100,

      2:24.6

      101, we went over the Near Eastern chronology of the use and then disuse of the Septuagint.

      2:32.8

      And then in 101, we talked about what happened in the early

      2:37.1

      church in the West up through the Reformation. Why did we stop even talking about it? Because the whole

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