Septuagint and Vulgate - Reliable? Inspired?

[robertcolumbia]

The Septuagint was a translation of the Jewish scriptures/Old Testament into Greek, and completed at least a hundred years before Christ. At one point, many Jews believed that the translation was inspired.

The Vulgate was a translation of the Bible into Latin made by Jerome in the 300's. For many years, it was the standard Bible in Western Europe, and some of the Protestant English translations prior to the KJV used the Vulgate as the base text.

Ignore the Apocrypha for a moment (remember that the KJV, when it was published, also included those books), and concentrate on the canonical books accepted from early days and fully accepted by Protestants today, and that forms our Bible. Are the Vulgate and Septuagint reliable translations in the sense that the KJV is? Were they inspired?

[Brother John]

Robert,

The church has been duped in regards to the Septuagint. Here's the truth of the matter.

www.chick.com/reading/books/158/158_09.asp

brandplucked.webs.com/nolxx.htm

Also, Dr. Ruckman has an excellent book on the subject entitled, "The Mythological Septuagint." You can find it here... www.kjv1611.org

The book by David Daniels called, "Did the Catholic Church Give Us the Bible?" is a very simplified, yet excellent, work covering these issues. I like simple, and I like cartoon drawings! So I enjoyed the book. www.chick.com/catalog/books/1252.asp

[Brother Ben]

Two excellent link, I recommed them for deeper explanation.

If I may, in a nutshell, address these two versions:

The Septuagent, also called the LXX, because it was supposedly tranlated by 70 elders out of each of the tribes of Israel, has very scant evidence to substantiate such a claim. Furthermore, Jesus did not quote from the LXX like some claim, but all indicators seem to point to the Masoretic text from which our KJV OT comes.

In regards to the Vulgate, the one the Majority Text favored was the Biblia Latina, or the Old LatinVulgate, instead of Jerome's Biblia Sacra Vulgata. The Old Vulgate was written around A.D. 157, whereas Jerome did his translation around A.D. 380.

Another good link on this topic here.

Bro. Ben