The Septuagint Torah

The Septuagint Torah. The scripture translated into the language the gospel will speak, three centuries early — and the New Testament writers overwhelmingly quote this Greek, not the Hebrew behind it.

Geometry, Retention: A reading: a faithful translation keeps what it carries across a language, the same work correction does in copying.

In plain words

The Torah is translated into Greek at Alexandria: the scripture put into the gospel's language three centuries early, and the version the New Testament writers mostly quote, a road laid by translators who could not have known where it led.

The mechanism

ROADS BEFORE PAYLOAD — laid by translators doing faithful work they could not have known the end of

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a release
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — Papyrus Rylands 458, John Rylands Library, Manchester · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P._Rylands_458.jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY — P. Rylands 458, an object with a date