Thursday, March 12, 2020

Did Jesus Quote from the Septuagint?


I recently heard a Roman Catholic argue that Jesus read and quoted from the Septuagint (LXX). This is a very weak argument since in Jesus’ time it was only permitted to read from scrolls written in Hebrew in the synagogues and/or the Temple of Jerusalem.

Jason Evert in Catholic Answers gives insight to this:

While the New Testament authors quoted the LXX frequently, it does not necessarily follow that Christ did. We know for certain that Jesus quoted the Hebrew Old Testament at times, since he read from the scrolls in the synagogue. But Jesus could have only quoted from the Hebrew, and the New Testament authors later used the Greek translation to record the fact.

The LXX was written in Greek, considered by the Jewish to be a “lesser” language. Since the apocryphal books are not part of the Tanakh, the Jewish canon does not include them. It was only until the LXX translation that these books appeared in conjunction to the Holy Scriptures of our Old Testament.
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