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

And I'm still, whoa.

Today's Stone Choir is the final, final, final episode of the Septuagint series.

This is what we've been calling the bonus episode up to this point.

We haven't selected the name for yet, so you know what

it's going to be, but I don't know as we're beginning recording what we're going to call it.

The prequel episode number 99 with the context window in this episode are two parts that are

bookending the seven parts content of the Septuagint story itself proper.

This episode is going to exclusively focus on what the process should look like

for a future translation of the Septuagint in English so that you as a reader don't have

the problem that we have had for the last 18 months working on this project,

which is very simply this.

Brenton, Lexham, Nets, and another one that we'll mention, all have the same problems,

which are that they don't necessarily exclusively rely on the Septuagint.

Even though they call themselves Septuagint. Even though they call themselves

Septuagint translations, there are decisions in terms of the content included or excluded or word

choices that are sometimes derived from the rabbinic text, which when you are endeavoring to

discover exclusively what is in Greek without any rabbinic influence becomes useless. So on one hand,

many of you have already gone out and bought one of those Bibles, that's great. Use it. Not criticizing

them and saying they're terrible for the sake of being a Bible in the sense of here's what I read at

home. Here's what I study, here's what I look at.

The problem is if the question you're trying to answer is, does this say exactly what the Greek says,

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