Mathieu, welcome to the Readers Forum.
I don’t know all that much about the Septuagint, but there are others members who do. What is the video claiming?
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mathieu said
I’d be very interested in a discussion of this YouTube post. Is it true? Is it meaningful?
The mighty Youtube Algorithm shoved that video my way as well, and it was late enough at night that I ended up getting through it in two or three spells.
I reckon that some of the things it claims are true, and others are quite plausible, but it paints with an overly broad brush.
That is, King Ptolemy II funding the translation of the Torah as a way to gain influence with the Jewish minority in Alexandria, many of them in important positions (trade & shipping in particular) for the power and influence of the Ptolemaic dynasty is quite plausible, and the claim that 72 translators each worked independently to create 72 translations that were each exact verbatim copies of the other is quite implausible.
I’m by no means an expert on such things, but is does seem like that what appear to be late 1st century and 2nd century Christian texts relying heavily on the Septuagint seems to be the prevailing view.
But the picture of early Christianity it gives may be over-simplified, so I’d be a bit cautious in putting any excessive weight on a claim if that video was the only source at hand providing it.
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