Message from @Southern✡Fag
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Just to be fair the Orthodox have an even larger canon
It's been a while since I've read about it but for historical inaccuracies Maccabees was excluded from the bible.
Luther threw it out because the oldest known copy at the time wasn't in Hebrew
Dead sea scrolls included an older copy in Hebrew though
I was really surprised to see how Luther sort of hated Jews lol
Was all pissed they didn't convert to Protestantism
He's basically the great grandfather of the Nazis
Originally he also tossed revelation
oh wow
Well Luther wasn't in charge of the bible. It was pieced together in Constantinople.
Initially anyway
The first "Protestant Bibles" had all the same books as us but moved them to another section
Including revelation
What was his issue with Revelations?
Said it was fake and uninspired
Said the same for Peter but didn't toss them
Did he have a problem with Hebrews not written in Hebrew?😂
Ultimately we Catholics based our Canon on the Septuagint while Protestants based theirs on the Hebrew book, I forget the name
Tanakh?
Yeah that's it
תנ"ך
interesting
Septuagint is the Greek translation
Translated by 72 Jewish scholars I think
I'm familiar with that. The 70 people that translated and compiled the Bible.
Sept = 7, is how I remember it.
I know the Jews are not playing around about translation and copies of the Bible though
Wasn't it in like Egypt or did they go to Greece?
Don't remember
Septuagint literally means 'translation of the 70' in Greek
Part of me thinks it was in Alexandria...
"Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria."
It was Alexandria, Egypt
That's why I think Alexandria, it was for the library.
Probably
Hebrew was not a common language in Egypt even among Jews
Weren't greek and latin the dominant languages at the time?
Greek was basically the official language of the eastern empire
Latin in the west
Hebrew was never a common language, it was strictly holy