[Avodah] Parshat Ki Tavo: What Was Written on the Stones?

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 05/09/17 11:17, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> 
> If as some hold that the entire Torah was translated into 70 languages,  
> then why was it necessary for Alexander to gather 70 sages to translate 
> it into Greek.  Didn't there already exist a Greek translation?

1. Ptolemy, not Alexander.

2. 72 sages, not 70.

3. Why do you think the stones, with the plaster on them and the writing 
on the plaster, still existed after 1000 years of exposure to the 
elements?  Does any 1000-year-old writing (not engraving) exist today?

4. Even if the writing did still exist, would whatever passed for Greek 
in 1271 BCE have been intelligible in 271 BCE?

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Zev Sero                May 2017, with its *nine* days of Chanukah,
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