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The ORIGINAL Bible: as preserved in the Septuagint
Many people don't realize it, but modern bibles such as the
King James, the Vulgate, and everything since are NOT the bible
that Jesus and his disciples used.
Approximately 100 years after the time of Jesus, Jewish rabbis
revised the bible, and that has come down to us today. Translators
such as St. Jerome, Martin Luther, et al, did not realize that the
Hebrew manuscripts they relied on had been revised extensively after
the time of Christ.
It is only in the last few centuries that scholarship has made us
aware that Jesus used an earlier version of the bible, which has
been preserved in the Greek Septuagint.
In 1954 The Falcon's Wing Press, of Indian Hills Colorado, issued
an updated version of the Septuagint that was edited and revised
by C. A. Muses. In his introduction, Dr. Muses makes the following
points (among many others):
"By the end of the first century of the Christian Era ... the
official Hebrew biblical text had already become considerably
alteres from what it was ... preceding the Christian Era.
"At some time between the age of LXX [the Septuagint] and that
of Aquila [ca 125 AD] a thorough revision of the Hebrew Bible
must have taken place, probably under official direction...
"It is established by abundant and widely scattered evidence
that the Septuagint text of the Bible was the one in use in the
days of Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples...."
This series of files contains images of the Septuagint bible taken
from the parallel English/Greek text published by Zondervan (this is
not the text revised by Dr. Muses).