[Avodah] LXX

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

Only 2 of the 15 loose translation listed in Megillah 9a-b are in the LXX.

But there is another alternative to saying the gemara was ahistorical --
the extant LXX isn't the Targum Shiv'im (72, really) but an Early Xian
adaptation of it or some other translation. Thus the use of parthenos
(virgin) for alma in Yeshaiah 7:14 and some other christological
adaptations.

Then the Xian test was accidentally renamed when confused with the
famous translation. Or, intentionally passed off a the Targum Shiv'im,
so as to give artificial authority to those partisan adaptations.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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