Anti-Septuagint Info

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Links of Interest

The Septuagint is a treasure which has been shamefully neglected for centuries. It is particularly upsetting when you realize that all the modern English translations either completely ignore its testimony or else rely on it solely when the Masoretic text proves itself to be corrupted. While it can be readily agreed that the LXX contains numerous poor translations from the Hebrew, this does not change the fact that it bears witness against omissions in the Hebrew in several places. This will surely change in time as the scholars continue to digest the discoveries from the Dead Sea.

Fortunately, there seems to be a modern resurgence of interest in the Septuagint and new information is being shared online daily. We will try to keep up with new links as they are found and present them here. If you have something to add to this list, please send it to economy1@gnte.org.

Pages at the economy publishing Website:

• An Historical Account of the Septuagint Version
• The Neglected Septuagint
• A Brief History of the Apocrypha
• Preface and Introduction to Goodspeed's Apocrypha
• A Brief Note on the Vulgate
• Qumran Cave IV and the Tetragrammaton
• Range Four - Septuagint Studies
• Hard Copy LXX and Interlinears
• Septuagint Info

Anti-Septuagintal Links:
These links are provided for entertainment and informational purposes only. We do not commend these opinions to you.

• This link may be entirely out of place here because the original author of the tract appears to understand the importance of the LXX.  The web publisher, however, appears not to understand this, professing a belief in the KJV-Only system of error.  (Perhaps someone should write to him and explain that the document he has reproduced is opposed to his beliefs?)
  The Best Book of All
• This link is an amusing diatribe written against the LXX, (apparently in favor of the English!)  THE MYTHOLOGICAL LXX
• Here is a link which puts things into a "moderate" perspective.  THE SEPTUAGINT AND THE MODERN VERSIONS
• Here is another anti-LXX link, with some good information, numerous inaccuracies, and plenty of italics and EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! More of a subtle defense of the MT than anything else.  THE SEPTUAGINT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS
• It would appear that the King James-Only crowd really despise the LXX. Wonder why?  KJV (This article gives the history of the peculiar KJV-Only religion: The Unlearned Men )
• This link takes the position that both the Hebrew AND the English are superior to the LXX.  KJV Preservation Page - Lesson Eight = mirror = KJV Preservation Page - Lesson Eight  ++++ (There is also a brief response to this page.) ++++
• Question #9  What is the LXX?  - This page contains in summary form most of the anti-Septuagint rhetoric, most of it erroneous, despite the author's claimed credentials.
• I think the page title says it all.  THE FOUR-FOLD SUPERIORITY OF THE KING JAMES VERSION

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Last updated: 03/27/04