You learned Greek to avoid translations of Scripture, so why read the Septuagint? Maybe you like the LXX for research, but it’s not part of your reading plan. Here are three reasons to read the Septuagint regularly and a great resource to start.
What is the Septuagint and why should you read it? Greg Lanier and Will Ross, editors of the Reader’s Edition LXX answer in this episode of Tool Talk.
The best way to improve your Greek is to read lots of it. We all enjoy reading the New Testament in Greek, but Koine Greek is much broader than the NT. The two corpora we should turn to first to continue expanding our Greek horizons are the Apostolic Fathers and the Septuagint. The Greek of the latter is probably easier (overall) and is therefore a great place….
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The Claim
Someone in the modern Messianic movement posted the following on Facebook….