Gad Barnea

And in it, in that document, in this letter of Aristeas, supposedly the king, Ptolemy, wanted to commission a translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek. in order to keep that in the Library of Alexandria. There are a lot of problems with that idea. First of all, as I said, they were not really interested in anything that's not Greek.

The idea of them commissioning a work like that is simply antithetical to how Alexandria operated. They were not this cosmopolitan. There's a much later kind of romantic idea

The idea of them commissioning a work like that is simply antithetical to how Alexandria operated. They were not this cosmopolitan. There's a much later kind of romantic idea

The idea of them commissioning a work like that is simply antithetical to how Alexandria operated. They were not this cosmopolitan. There's a much later kind of romantic idea

that alexander was this cosmopolitan place where all cultures were treated equally and there was this great kumbaya of cultures great supremacy yeah yeah and a lot of that comes from uh actually from the the the time of the french revolution where where the intellectuals wanted to show that christianity is the source of all evil and so look at the how humanity was before christianity with this absolutely

that alexander was this cosmopolitan place where all cultures were treated equally and there was this great kumbaya of cultures great supremacy yeah yeah and a lot of that comes from uh actually from the the the time of the french revolution where where the intellectuals wanted to show that christianity is the source of all evil and so look at the how humanity was before christianity with this absolutely

that alexander was this cosmopolitan place where all cultures were treated equally and there was this great kumbaya of cultures great supremacy yeah yeah and a lot of that comes from uh actually from the the the time of the french revolution where where the intellectuals wanted to show that christianity is the source of all evil and so look at the how humanity was before christianity with this absolutely

Great universal, you know, everyone was working together and then it was destroyed. But the reality was that Alexandria was very Hellenocentric. Now, another really important point that a lot of scholars miss is that the Septuagint is not Greek as such. It's not Greek Greek.

Great universal, you know, everyone was working together and then it was destroyed. But the reality was that Alexandria was very Hellenocentric. Now, another really important point that a lot of scholars miss is that the Septuagint is not Greek as such. It's not Greek Greek.

Great universal, you know, everyone was working together and then it was destroyed. But the reality was that Alexandria was very Hellenocentric. Now, another really important point that a lot of scholars miss is that the Septuagint is not Greek as such. It's not Greek Greek.

So the Septuagint is this translation of the, especially of the Torah, of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible into something that is Greek related. Okay. And the reason I'm saying Greek-related is because it's not actual Greek. It's Hebrew Greek. It's Jewish Greek. It's Judeo-Greek. It's kind of like Yiddish.

So the Septuagint is this translation of the, especially of the Torah, of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible into something that is Greek related. Okay. And the reason I'm saying Greek-related is because it's not actual Greek. It's Hebrew Greek. It's Jewish Greek. It's Judeo-Greek. It's kind of like Yiddish.

So the Septuagint is this translation of the, especially of the Torah, of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible into something that is Greek related. Okay. And the reason I'm saying Greek-related is because it's not actual Greek. It's Hebrew Greek. It's Jewish Greek. It's Judeo-Greek. It's kind of like Yiddish.

That's crazy. I've never heard of that before. Right. So I come from classical studies, and so I studied classical Greek for a long time. And so for me, coming into and reading the Septuagint or the New Testament, which is an extension of the Septuagint in terms of its language, It was almost shocking.

That's crazy. I've never heard of that before. Right. So I come from classical studies, and so I studied classical Greek for a long time. And so for me, coming into and reading the Septuagint or the New Testament, which is an extension of the Septuagint in terms of its language, It was almost shocking.

That's crazy. I've never heard of that before. Right. So I come from classical studies, and so I studied classical Greek for a long time. And so for me, coming into and reading the Septuagint or the New Testament, which is an extension of the Septuagint in terms of its language, It was almost shocking.

It was almost uncomfortable for anyone coming from classical Greek or from Greek Greek to read the Septuagint because it's not – in some cases, it seems to be wrong. It seems to be badly written. Some of the terms that it's using don't make sense in Greek, but when you know the Hebrew term behind it, It's an exact translation into the Greek of the Hebrew term. Interesting. So it's Hebrew.

It was almost uncomfortable for anyone coming from classical Greek or from Greek Greek to read the Septuagint because it's not – in some cases, it seems to be wrong. It seems to be badly written. Some of the terms that it's using don't make sense in Greek, but when you know the Hebrew term behind it, It's an exact translation into the Greek of the Hebrew term. Interesting. So it's Hebrew.

It was almost uncomfortable for anyone coming from classical Greek or from Greek Greek to read the Septuagint because it's not – in some cases, it seems to be wrong. It seems to be badly written. Some of the terms that it's using don't make sense in Greek, but when you know the Hebrew term behind it, It's an exact translation into the Greek of the Hebrew term. Interesting. So it's Hebrew.

It's really very much, I'm sure a lot of people listening to this know about Yiddish. So Yiddish is Jewish German, right? It's a German language, but adopted by the- I didn't even know that.