re jewish history question in article cocoac ug q ksb netcom com cocoa netcom com writes in article apr csi uottawa ca misrael csi uottawa ca mark israel writes in article cocoac e y netcom com cocoa netcom com little e writes deleted here tis someone just told me that the old testament books were translated into greek a long time ago yes that s a famous version called the septuagint it was a translation made by greek jews and that the originals were destroyed in a fire soon afterward no i don t know what you re referring to here when the jersusalem temple was destroyed some manuscripts may have been lost but i think our extant hebrew manuscripts are as good as our greek ones i don t know about any originals the person who was telling me about the septuagint version said that the greeks had a wonderful library in alexandria that was full of manuscripts scrolls and that it was burned soon after the septuagint version was translated perhaps to conceal some changes in the different versions or perhaps just as part of the typical burning of valuable things that occurs during changes in power groups he i dunno no the library at alexandria was perhaps the greatest library ever built in the world the greeks had a love of wisdom philo sophos and this great love was reflected in the alexandrian library the christians got a hold of it and began modifying and purging texts and then the moslems invaded and either the christians burned the library to keep it from falling into moslems hands far more likely since they were the book burners not the moslems or it burned in the sack of the city or the moslems burned it either way a tremendous amount of information was lost the destruction of the library of alexandria was probably one of the greatest crimes of man against man so i was just wondering since i imagine some jewish people somewhere must have had copies of the earlier hebrew versions is the hebrew version of the old testament very different from the greek derived version no there are a few famous discrepancies isaiah s prophecy about a young woman was changed into a virgin which was how the new testament writers read it but not many actually the hebrew almah young woman was translated as the hellenistic greek parthenos which may or may not be correctly translated into the modern and technical english term virgin the jews did not have the type of virginity cult that the greco romans had in artemis and diana well perhaps this is the answer then deleted if you go to a jewish bookstore you ll get a bible translated by jews so there will be some differences in interpretation but the text they re translating from is basically the same the standard text used by christians and jews is the masoretic text jews of course use the text in its original hebrew without translation if you want to read the original you can buy an interlinear bible that contains the hebrew old testament and the greek new testament with an english translation written underneath each word if you want a bible with a possibly more original basic text you can try to find a samaritan bible good luck i ve never seen one the samaritans no not the good samaritans have their own version of the books of moses they claim the jewish bible was altered by ezra propaganda thanks for the tips now i just have to find someone to teach me samaritan just me little e so is a good samaritan hard to find or is a hard oh finish this
