>We do well to remember that “scripture” and “canon” are different things, and of course we should never make the mistake of thinking that early Christians had Bibles like our own.
Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.
stavros•46m ago
It's so refreshing to see that there used to exist authors other than Claude.
geocar•4m ago
> Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.
The Septuagint was only the Torah (five Books of Moses). It wasn’t until much later that Greek translations of the rest of the Hebrew Bible were done. These are often referred to as the Septuagint but that is not accurate, these later translations were not done by some official group of 70 Rabbis.
itchingsphynx•56m ago
>We do well to remember that “scripture” and “canon” are different things, and of course we should never make the mistake of thinking that early Christians had Bibles like our own.
Reading any of this ancient text is like tourism.
stavros•46m ago
geocar•4m ago
You may enjoy the "map" on page two:
https://web.archive.org/web/20081031050603/http://www.tniv.c...