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The history of Susanna presents wider divergencies, the Septuagint being briefer, and Theodotion's text exhibiting the character of an elaboration. The fact is clear that they are based on a common traditional story, while it is perhaps doubtful whether Theodotion's amplifications presuppose his use of the extant Septuagint text. The possibility that the two are parallel developments of an antecedent written account is, theoretically, certainly admissible. A few passages may illustrate the foregoing observations. Verses 12 et seq. read in the Septuagint:
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This is blatantly impossible as the writers of the Gospel texts constructed their texts by haggidic midrash on the stories in the OT as presented in the Septuagint, and on other Jewish sources. Those descendents of Legionnaires were experts in the Jewish writings, citing them, referring to them, paralleling them, and incorporating their tropes, myths, legends, and understandings of the world.
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"This is a good all-round introduction to the Septuagint. . . . This volume provides a good entry point into Septuagint studies and would be a suitable text for a course on this subject."--John F. Brug, Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly
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