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13 Emmanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 1992) 85 The Samaritan Targum is generally regarded as a more plain, literal translation while many of the Jewish Targums were often somewhat interpretive. In addition to the Jewish Targums, the Samaritans also produced an Aramaic translation of the Torah. Tully, Old Testament Textual Criticism (Baker Academic, 2016) 77 11 ibid We don’t know when written Aramaic Targums were first produced, but our earliest manuscripts go back as early as the second century BC. Tully, Old Testament Textual Criticism (Baker Academic, 2016) 77 The Aramaic was the contemporary vernacular of the people, however, and so Aramaic translations were produced to aid in comprehension and application of the sacred text.

9 Emmanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 1992) 149 Indeed, the Aramaic did not supplant the Hebrew, which continued to be read aloud in worship. Tully, Old Testament Textual Criticism (Baker Academic, 2016) 76 Hebrew and Aramaic are extremely similar languages, and it seems almost surprising that an Aramaic translation was needed at all. After the Babylonian exile, the dominant language among the Jews in and around their homeland began to shift from Hebrew to Aramaic. Greek was also not the only language into which the Jew translated the Hebrew Scriptures. They made various translations of the Greek Septuagint into many other languages during the 2nd-9th centuries, including Latin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Gothic, Armenian, Georgian, and Slavonic. Though many early Christians spoke Greek, not all did, and Christians were not content to leave the Old Testament only in Greek.

6 Henry Swete, An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek: Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1914) 61 The wide popularity and influence of the Hexapla show that this view was held by many early Christians. They, too, are the word of God, even when they differ from the Septuagint, and the church is richer from knowing them. 5 Ibid, 144 It was based on the assumption that, while the Septuagint should be revered as the word of God even in its peculiar readings, there is also value in the study of other translations. 4 Ibid, 147-148 The Hexapla had a profound influence on the future copying of the Septuagint, and scholars give it a central position among the editions of the LXX. In the third century AD, Origen of Alexandria collected these various Greek editions (along with the Hebrew text of his day) and published them all side by side in parallel columns with notations of key differences in a massive work known as the Hexapla. 2 Ibid, 143 Even these, however, are often classified by some scholars as revisions of the Septuagint rather than new “from scratch” translations. Indeed, after Christians embraced and so effectively used the Septuagint for their own teaching, worship, and evangelism, the Jews rejected it and sought to produce new Greek editions to suit their own community’s needs. Gentile Christians knew nothing of Hebrew, and so the Septuagint was their Bible. 1 Emmanuel Tov, Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible (Fortress Press, 1992) 136 The Septuagint is often quoted verbatim in the New Testament and was very important to the early church. The Torah (The Books of Moses, Genesis through Deuteronomy) was translated into Greek in the third century BC, with the other Old Testament books shortly to follow. This eventually led to the need for a Greek translation. Many Jews dispersed throughout that world began to speak Greek as their primary language. After the time of Alexander the Great, Greek became the common language of much of the ancient world. The Old Testament Scriptures of the Hebrew Bible were brought into other common languages for centuries before the coming of Jesus Christ, and indeed were a great help to the early church. Translations of Scripture is older than Christianity itself. In any language in which the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are faithfully rendered, they are still the word of God, and so the Scriptures should be translated into any language necessary to bring the gospel message to all people everywhere. Unlike religions such as Islam, where the Quran is only truly the Quran in the original Arabic, Biblical Christianity has always believed that God’s word can and should be translated into the common languages of all men.

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