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Reading the Septuagint and Greek New Testament in a Year with Matthew Thomas

The Biblical Languages Podcast (brought to you by Biblingo)

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The Variability of English Translations

An English translation has a wider degree of variability in the way that it translates underlying terms. In Romans 3, Paul uses the same root 10 times; we get five roots over here. There are so many different ways of saying any given thing when you're translating into English. What's created by the Septuagint is you just have less consistency between original and new Testament.

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