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Pope Benedict: the Greek Old Testament (1)

As with many of you, the ‘Islam question’ has inspired me to a new reading of Pope Benedict’s Regensberg lecture. Today I would like to draw two sentences to your attention. “Today we know that the Greek translation of the Old Testament produced in Alexandria – the Septuagint – is more than a simple (and in that sense really less than satisfactory) translation of the Hebrew text: it is an

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