So when Benedict XVI said that the LXX is “an independent textual witness”, he was saying that, in any attempt to reconstruct an ‘original text’ of the Old Testament, the LXX is just as respectable piece of evidence as the MT (the Hebrew texts used in modern synagogues). The Reformation view that the ‘Scriptures’ should be translated from the ‘authentic Hebrew Original’ is a gross
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