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Septuagint: Old Testament
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[T]he Septuagint story is a hoax. It was not written before Christ; so it was not used by Jesus or His apostles. It is the only set of manuscripts to include the Apocrypha mixed in with the books of the Bible, so as to justify the Roman Catholic inclusion of them in their Bibles. And it is just those same, perverted Alexandrian codices —the same ones that mess up the New Testament —dressed up in pretty packaging.
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The Septuagint contains the standard 39 books of the Old Testament canon, as well as certain apocryphal books. The term "Apocrypha" was coined by the fifth-century biblical scholar, Jerome, and generally refers to the set of ancient Jewish writings written during the period between the last book in the Jewish scriptures, Malachi, and the arrival of Jesus Christ. The apocryphal books include Judith, Tobit, Baruch, Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus), the Wisdom of Solomon, First and Second Maccabees, the two Books of Esdras, additions to the Book of Esther, additions to the Book of Daniel, and the Prayer of Manasseh.
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The vast majority of the Septuagint coincides with the Jewish Tanakh, although the order does not always coincide with the modern ordering of the books, which was not settled until some time before AD 200. This suggests that the Septuagint represents an older consensus current at the time of Christ.
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By its Christian adoption, the Septuagint had been reordered to contain four sections (law, history, poetry, prophets) as opposed to the Jewish three and expanded from the Hebrew old testament with over ten new books. For many theologians, the Septuagint wasn't just a translation of half their bible, it was the word itself and only two traditions – the Latin, via Jerome's Vulgate, and the Syriac – went back to the Hebrew for clarification when writing later bibles.
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Of the fuller quotations in the New Testament of the Old, nearly one hundred agree with the modern form of the Septuagint and six agree with the Masoretic Text. The principal differences concern presumed Biblical prophecies relative to Christ.
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The Septuagint contains the thirty-nine canonical books of the Old Testament, but ... contains the books called the Apocrypha, which are considered non-inspired, and hence non-canonical, by most Protestant denominations. The Apocrypha are considered canonical by the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox communities, and are included in Catholic Bibles.
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