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The Septuagint — Wisdom Literature

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Stone Choir

Education, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Hosts

Corey J. Mahler

coreyjmahler.com

@CoreyJMahler

    Woe

    aka Eschatologuy

    @treblewoe

      As between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text (MT), there are significant differences in the books that comprise the wisdom literature (i.e., Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon). These differences range from changes in diction through distortions and corruptions to outright additions and deletions (one should think of the warning in the Book of Revelation). Out treatment here is not (and is not intended to be) comprehensive — there are centuries of work ahead of the Church; rather, we intend to drive home the point that the only Christian reaction is to abandon and anathematize the ‘Hebrew’ passed to us by the rabbis in favor of the Greek passed to us by Christ, the Apostles, and our faithful forebears — and, most importantly of all, preserved by God, as He promised.

      Christ, the Apostles, and the early Church all unanimously held that the Septuagint is, indeed, the very Word of God. In this fifth episode in the (now) nine-episode LXX series, we examine differences between the LXX and the MT in the wisdom books (largely focusing on Proverbs). This is the second of three episodes dealing specifically with the Old Testament differences between the LXX and the MT.

      This is, of course, not our closing argument, for we will be making that in the two episodes that deal with the New Testament and how it treats the Old Testament.

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      0:00.0

      The

      0:07.0

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

      0:41.7

      And I'm still, whoa.

      0:44.2

      On today's Stone Quire, we're continuing our discussion of the Septuagint.

      0:49.2

      This week's episode is going to specifically be focusing on wisdom literature.

      0:53.9

      So we're going to talk a little bit

      0:56.0

      about the Psalms and mostly Proverbs and Ecclesiastes. Before we begin, brief housekeeping,

      1:01.9

      apologize for the last couple of weeks not being around. I was on my way out the door to have

      1:05.6

      my surgery when I got called and decided it had been canceled. I don't have a date yet for when it's

      1:09.7

      going to be done again.

      1:16.4

      I am thankful that happened because I realized afterwards I have six tons of wood pellets coming soon that I have to get into my garage. So I would not have been able to do that when I was

      1:20.8

      healing from surgery. So God protected me from being an idiot as he does us all. I don't know yet when that's going to be,

      1:28.6

      so there'll be another delight. A bunch of other things have come up and interrupted. I apologize

      1:32.4

      for the intermittent nature of this series. If you don't follow on X, we recently published

      1:40.0

      the entire six-plus-hour episode of the interview that Corey and I did with Will Spencer last year.

      1:47.0

      He published it all his episodes on his substack and immediately pulled him down and stabs us in the

      1:53.9

      back. So this is the last bit of pre-drama version of that. We decided to put up the whole thing

      2:00.2

      as there were some new questions

      2:01.3

      that came about from that camp of evil men. And we don't have any of the episodes that were edited,

      2:07.3

      which is the reason that we didn't actually put it on the Stonequire feed. So in the link to the

      2:12.0

      show notes for this episode, and we'll go back in the link for the show notes to the episode

      2:16.5

      that we published on our feet a year ago.

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