Thanks for sharing the information you found about the Greek Septuagint .
many Christians spend many years wondering and searching for truth about the authenticity of The Greek Septuagint and its reliability - their question is asked “ is this codex of scripture truly an original text that was created before Jesus was born ?
one think that is important to Christians who care about God's word is that from the very first Genesis book of the Bible in The Greek Septuagint.........
within Brentons Septuagint produced in 1844 from " POST CHRIST " manuscripts
........ we see Enoch at 165 years of age had his son Methuselah.
= this was 1,287 years after creation, and Mathusala at 167 years of age had Lamech. = this was 1,454 year s after creation and Lamech at 88 years of age had Noah = this was 1,642 years after creation.
in The Greek Septuagint - all of these numbers of this genealogy are totally different and contradicting the genealogy in The Masoretic Text of the historical Torah,
although - the flood in The Septuagint the flood does began 600 years after Noah was born = this genealogy brings the Septuagint account of the flood at “ 2,242 “ years after creation –
and in The Masoretic Text of the historical Torah the flood begins at “ 1,642 “ years after creation - because the timeline or generations are totally different.
But in The Greek Septuagint - If we subtract the year “ 1,287 “ when Methuselah was born from the year “ 2,242 = when the flood came.
2,242
1,287-
- - - - - = - 955 -
the math is completely off by 14 years. The Greek Septuagint says – Gen 5:26-27 - Mathusala died at 969 years - - - this is “ 14 “ years of difference. A total contradiction.__
In The Greek Septuagint - not only does the math not add up - but The Septuagint shows that - Mathusala literally lived 14 years after / longer – from when the flood had come ....
According to the math of The Septuagint - Mathusala lived 14 years longer after the flood occurred and then he died 14 years after the flood. The Septuagint genealogy timeline / computation says that he survived through the flood - but Mathusala was never on the ark.
This also means that the entire “ post - flood “ timeline of genealogies and chronological events remaining through the entire Greek Septuagint and after the flood are all based based upon this Genesis error, in The Masoretic Hebrew Text, the flood begins at “ 1,642 “ years after creation - But in The Greek Septuagint - If we subtract the year “ 1,287 “ when this occurred from the year - 2,242 - this sets everyone who is born after the flood 586 years into the future based on this and also sets the flood at least two or three generations added - of mankind born on earth.
according to the math of The Septuagint in the comparing of the two timelines with the Masoretic text ------- was Jesus Christ crucified 586 years after Rome conquered Jerusalem in AD 70.
In the Greek Septuagint - Shem does not even live to the time of Abraham,
in fact there is not a single factual physical proof or physical evidence of a Greek Septuagint existing before the 4 th century
interesting is that the Orthodox Septuagint made in 2008. is another " POST CHRIST " manuscripts version of the Septuagint which places Mathusala's death 6 years before the flood which makes sense however this is the type of Problem that Jerome faced when making his Latin Vulgate.
as Jerome looked to the Greek texts for guidance, he found nothing but a very limited amount of fragments and partial chapters that were filled with contradictions.
he found nothing but incomplete fragments - AND THOUSANDS OF CONTRADICTING GREEK MANUSCRIPTS WITH INCOMPLETE CHAPTERS
there were MANY, MANY different contradicting fragments and partial chapters of the Greek Old Testament in Jerome’s time.
and nothing was evident concerning what Greek manuscripts to use. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF WHAT WAS THE GREEK SEPTAGINT or if this even existed,.
Jerome ultimately decided that the Old Testament HEBREW TEXT THAT HE HAD ACCESS TO could only properly be used and Jerome translated from the original Hebrew because he found no contradictions and found a complete volume of books.
as where there was not a single book of the Bible available in Greek and in many cases not even a compete chapter in Greek.
Jerome learned Hebrew from Jewish rabbis and completed his translation of the Bible into Latin. He submitted this work — which took him years to translate .....
i ask again - for my Christian Brothers to provide factual physical evidence of a Greek Septuagint outside of traditions, rumors and claims but none have ever produced a single chapter or a complete page of any manuscripts of a Greek Septuagint existing before Jesus Christ.