Isaiah 45:17, Peshitta, Mass, LXX, etc

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Shlama All,

Akhi Dawid, you surprise me with your anger and "scandalous statement" comment. I sense a very strong anti-Christian bias in you that I was not aware of.
I never said the Peshitta Tanakh is more accurate overall, though I do wonder at times if that may be so, given the 9 centuries between them, and the fact that the sacred Name YHWH was changed 134 times to Adonai in the Hebrew text (according to the Massoretes) , whereas the Peshitta retains "Marya" in those places. I do hold The Massoretic text in high esteem; most likely it is the closest to the original. I just would like to see it as accurate as possible.

Many other like changes were noted by the Massoretes which have yet to be corrected in the Hebrew text itself, and The Peshitta bears witness to a first century text which had not been tampered with in that way. The Dead Sea Scrolls are no where near to containing the entire Tanach. As I recall, only two whole books are in any scroll (Isaiah & Habakkuk) , and some books, like Samuel, contain a text more like The LXX than that of the Massoretic. They can help, but there are many large gaps in their fragmentary testimony.

I also am reading and translating the inscriptions of the Psalms in Codex Ambrosianus which clearly indicate that the translator(s) was Christian, stating at the head of Psalm 23 : "About the communion table and to us now, spiritually ,an introduction of the new Christian people", and the very date of the destruction of Jersusalem by "Titus, son of Vespasian, 40 years after the ascension, & they have put Jerusalem to the sword and taken away the nobles, until this day", at the head of Psalm 74. Whoever wrote those notes was a believer in The Messiah Yeshua and wrote them in the times he describes, when Christianity was a recent development and the captivity of many elders of Jerusalem was still fresh in their minds and those captives were presumed to be alive.

There are so many references to the various Psalms as references to The Messiah and to His disciples by name, that together with the above inscriptions, it is quite tenable a position that Jews who converted to Yeshua as The Messiah in the first century translated the Peshitta Psalms,at the least. As such, we would have a first century Semitic witness to the Hebrew Tanakh in or near to Israel.

Where is all that anger coming from, Dawid?

Blessings,

Dave