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== Objections to the Septuagint ==

== Objections to the Septuagint ==

Any translation is automatically suspect, if only because of differences in grammar and idiom between the source and target languages.<ref>See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+1%3A1&version=DRA Sirach 1:1 Douay-Rheims 1899 American edition (DRA) (biblegateway.com)] ''Ben-Sira's introduction to the Book of Ecclesiasticus''

Any translation is automatically suspect, if only because of differences in grammar and idiom between the source and target languages.<ref>See [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Sirach+1%3A1&version=DRA Sirach 1:1 Douay-Rheims 1899 American edition (DRA) (biblegateway.com)] ''Ben-Sira's introduction to the Book of Ecclesiasticus''

:"...for the Hebrew words have not the same force in them when translated into another tongue. And not only these, but the law also itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own language."</ref> Also, later Jews were suspect of anything that had a non-Jewish influence, and so kept the original Hebrew texts. The [[Masoretic Text]] is the traditional Hebrew (and in some books, Aramaic), and is the text that is used today both for those who read Hebrew, and for translating to other languages.  

:"...for the Hebrew words have not the same force in them when translated into another tongue. And not only these, but the law also itself, and the prophets, and the rest of the books, have no small difference, when they are spoken in their own language."</ref> Also, later Jews were suspicious of anything that had a non-Jewish influence, and so kept most of the original Hebrew texts<ref>All of the Old Testament books rejected as [[apocrypha]] from the 2nd century onward by rabbinical authority have been found to have originally been Hebrew texts, with the sole exception of the [[Book of Wisdom|Wisdom of Solomon]]. See [[Council of Jabnia]].</ref> The [[Masoretic Text]] is the traditional Hebrew (and in some books, Aramaic), and is the text that is used today both for those who read Hebrew, and for translating to other languages.  

Saint Jerome used the Septuagint as the basis of the Gallican Psalter and the book of Job of the [[Latin Vulgate|Vulgate]]. After more than a decade he decided the Septuagint was too fraught with mistranslations to be acceptable. At the beginning of AD the fifth century Jerome used only copies of biblical books in Hebrew and in some places Aramaic.<ref>[http://www.ntcanon.org/Vulgate.shtml The Development of the Canon of the New Testament: Vulgate]</ref> It is important to note that Jerome did not exclude from the whole of the Christian Bible the books designated as [[Apocrypha]] by the second century Palestinian Jewish rabbinical authorities and afterward by the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, but he included them among the books of the Old Testament. [[Martin Luther]] was first to separate and segregate the [[deuterocanonicals]] in a separate section apart from the Old Testament which he designated "The Apocrypha".

Saint Jerome used the Septuagint as the basis of the Gallican Psalter and the book of Job of the [[Latin Vulgate|Vulgate]]. After more than a decade he decided the Septuagint was too fraught with mistranslations to be acceptable. At the beginning of AD the fifth century Jerome used only copies of biblical books in Hebrew and in some places Aramaic.<ref>[http://www.ntcanon.org/Vulgate.shtml The Development of the Canon of the New Testament: Vulgate]</ref> It is important to note that Jerome did not exclude from the whole of the Christian Bible the books designated as [[Apocrypha]] by the second century Palestinian Jewish rabbinical authorities and afterward by the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, but he included them among the books of the Old Testament. [[Martin Luther]] was first to separate and segregate the [[deuterocanonicals]] in a separate section apart from the Old Testament which he designated "The Apocrypha".