Lost in Translation: Biblical Idioms and Interpretations

As between the Septuagint (LXX) and the rabbinic text (MT), there are significant differences in many verses that deal with Christology. The MT is not always ‘less Christological’, for that would have been a poor-quality trap, but the proper hermeneutic for determining the text of Scripture is not ‘more Christology’; rather, the right hermeneutic is quite simply: What is Scripture and what does it say?

Christ, the Apostles, and the early Church all unanimously held that the Septuagint is, indeed, the very Word of God. In this fourth episode in the (now) nine-episode LXX series, we examine Christological differences between the LXX and the MT. This is the first of three episodes dealing specifically with the Old Testament differences between the LXX and the MT.

This is, of course, not our closing argument, for we will be making that in the two episodes that deal with the New Testament and how it treats the Old Testament.

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Show Notes

• Isaiah 7:14
• Psalm 22:16
• Psalm 2:10–12
• Isaiah 6:8–10
• Isaiah 9:6
• Isaiah 53:5–6
• Zechariah 12:10
• Psalm 40:6–8
• Amos 9:11–12
• Deuteronomy 32:43
• Isaiah 53:8–9
• Isaiah 11:10
• Psalm 23

See Also

• Lexham LXX
• Brenton LXX

Further Reading

• Isaiah 53

Parental Warnings

None.

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