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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''.</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.  

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.  

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>

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>