Gad Barnea

Parts of it are just unexpected turns of phrases and things like that. And certainly the vocabulary is different in many cases. It is of course Greek, like Yiddish is German ultimately. But it's not Greek Greek. And it makes you feel like you're in a kind of almost parallel universe. It's not even the difference between British English and American English. It's much more than that.

And it is in many ways an artificial language, the Jewish Greek. It's the Greek that was spoken by the Jews in the Ptolemaic Empire and especially in – probably mostly in Alexandria.

And it is in many ways an artificial language, the Jewish Greek. It's the Greek that was spoken by the Jews in the Ptolemaic Empire and especially in – probably mostly in Alexandria.

And it is in many ways an artificial language, the Jewish Greek. It's the Greek that was spoken by the Jews in the Ptolemaic Empire and especially in – probably mostly in Alexandria.

um and so it was written for it wasn't commissioned by the king i mean the chances of a king commissioning something in judeo-greek rather than actual greek i think are slim to non-existent and i'm not you can't completely discount this but i think it makes little very little sense for a work commissioned by the king to not be written in actual greek and you can of course you can you could have translated the hebrew into greek greek you could have

um and so it was written for it wasn't commissioned by the king i mean the chances of a king commissioning something in judeo-greek rather than actual greek i think are slim to non-existent and i'm not you can't completely discount this but i think it makes little very little sense for a work commissioned by the king to not be written in actual greek and you can of course you can you could have translated the hebrew into greek greek you could have

um and so it was written for it wasn't commissioned by the king i mean the chances of a king commissioning something in judeo-greek rather than actual greek i think are slim to non-existent and i'm not you can't completely discount this but i think it makes little very little sense for a work commissioned by the king to not be written in actual greek and you can of course you can you could have translated the hebrew into greek greek you could have

but they didn't so it trans it is translated into the jail greek and i think it's translated for the alexandrian jews who are as i said okay pretty pretty significant community and how what like as far as like a time frame of when this translation took place like how how much time is there between the torah and the septuagint with the translation I think very little time.

but they didn't so it trans it is translated into the jail greek and i think it's translated for the alexandrian jews who are as i said okay pretty pretty significant community and how what like as far as like a time frame of when this translation took place like how how much time is there between the torah and the septuagint with the translation I think very little time.

but they didn't so it trans it is translated into the jail greek and i think it's translated for the alexandrian jews who are as i said okay pretty pretty significant community and how what like as far as like a time frame of when this translation took place like how how much time is there between the torah and the septuagint with the translation I think very little time.

We're talking about the third century before the common era. I think in the first quarter of that century, we're talking about kind of the Hebrew texts starting to come together of the Torah. And then the translation was very, you know, within a decade or two later on.

We're talking about the third century before the common era. I think in the first quarter of that century, we're talking about kind of the Hebrew texts starting to come together of the Torah. And then the translation was very, you know, within a decade or two later on.

We're talking about the third century before the common era. I think in the first quarter of that century, we're talking about kind of the Hebrew texts starting to come together of the Torah. And then the translation was very, you know, within a decade or two later on.

Yeah. I mean, earlier I mentioned Virgil and him writing the equivalent of the Torah. That took him 10 years. That's it. It took for one person to write the equivalent of the Torah and more because, again, he had to write it with meter and rhyme. So it was much more work to do this, again, but the same length of text.

Yeah. I mean, earlier I mentioned Virgil and him writing the equivalent of the Torah. That took him 10 years. That's it. It took for one person to write the equivalent of the Torah and more because, again, he had to write it with meter and rhyme. So it was much more work to do this, again, but the same length of text.

Yeah. I mean, earlier I mentioned Virgil and him writing the equivalent of the Torah. That took him 10 years. That's it. It took for one person to write the equivalent of the Torah and more because, again, he had to write it with meter and rhyme. So it was much more work to do this, again, but the same length of text.

ten years to do to write it now he was also using existing material he didn't invent the entire story just by himself he was that the idea that the Romans were children of this hero this Homeric hero from Troy from the Battle of Troy of course predated him and we we find the echoes of that already in this in the second century before the Common Era in Rome

ten years to do to write it now he was also using existing material he didn't invent the entire story just by himself he was that the idea that the Romans were children of this hero this Homeric hero from Troy from the Battle of Troy of course predated him and we we find the echoes of that already in this in the second century before the Common Era in Rome

ten years to do to write it now he was also using existing material he didn't invent the entire story just by himself he was that the idea that the Romans were children of this hero this Homeric hero from Troy from the Battle of Troy of course predated him and we we find the echoes of that already in this in the second century before the Common Era in Rome

So he's using existing material and reworking this to fit certain rhymes and certain meters and adds to it and composes this incredible work known as the Aineads. But it took him 10 years to do. Now, a much more...