
When God Spoke Greek
The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 months free
Buy for $19.95
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Stephen McLaughlin
How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role in the Bible's history. Many of the Hebrew scriptures were still evolving when they were translated into Greek, and these Greek translations, along with several new Greek writings, became Holy Scripture in the early Church.
Yet gradually the Septuagint lost its place at the heart of Western Christianity. At the end of the fourth century, one of antiquity's brightest minds rejected the Septuagint in favor of the Bible of the rabbis. After Jerome, the Septuagint never regained the position it once had.
Timothy Michael Law recounts the story of the Septuagint's origins, its relationship to the Hebrew Bible, and the adoption and abandonment of the first Christian Old Testament.
Download the accompanying reference guide.©2013 Oxford University Press (P)2014 Audible Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















People who viewed this also viewed...








Wonderfully written and read!!!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Superior!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
exploring the TRUTH through another's view. amazin
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
- the emphasis on the diversity of the OT text seems to be stretched beyond allowable evidence. True, the LXX is an authoritative text but that does not imply that the OT text was completely in a state of flux.
- the downplaying of the value of seeking after one authorial and authoritative text is also unnecessary and does not follow from the evidence presented.
Nonetheless, the book is excellent and educational.
Engaging and well-needed but some cautions
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
awesome review. every Christian should read
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A Word of Caution
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
There is no book like this one that I have ever found. As the Holy Spirit whispered to St. Augustine, "Tolle lege." Take up and read this book!
A popular history about the formation of the Bible
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Excellent Insights. A very interesting book.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Eye opening on so many levels.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
assumptions galore!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.