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

[Lisa Liel via Avodah]

On 9/5/2017 6:17 PM, Prof. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> According to some the entire Torah was written on these stones.  
> However, others disagree.
...
> 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?

Well, for one thing, it was Ptolemy, rather than Alexander.  But for 
another, maybe it wasn't necessary.  Perhaps if they'd simply asked for 
the authoritative Greek translation, they'd have gotten it, and any 
number of distortions of the Torah caused by the Septuagint wouldn't 
have happened.

Lisa