Can the Torah be translated?

The Torah has been translated into nearly every written language. It has passed from Hebrew into Greek, from Greek into Latin, and from Latin into the English with which these words are written.

What does LXX mean in the Bible?

Septuagint
Septuagint, abbreviation LXX, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew.

Why was the Hebrew Bible translated into Greek?

They assembled to translate the Hebrew Old Testament into the Greek language because Koine Greek began to supplant Hebrew as the language most commonly spoken by the Jewish people during the Hellenistic Period. The Pentateuch is the Greek version of the Torah, which consists of the first five books of the Bible.

How many languages has the Torah been translated into?

The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. As of September 2020 the full Bible has been translated into 704 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,551 languages and Bible portions or stories into 1,160 other languages.

How many languages is the Torah translated into?

This third time, on the plains of Moav, the Torah is explained by Moshe in 70 languages so that the Children of Israel would be able to communicate it to the Nations of the World. We can now understand that any translation of the Torah is considered a commentary and explains one aspect of the Torah.

Why isn’t the Septuagint in the Bible?

Jewish use Several factors led most Jews to abandon the Septuagint around the second century CE. The earliest gentile Christians used the Septuagint out of necessity, since it was the only Greek version of the Bible and most (if not all) of these early non-Jewish Christians could not read Hebrew.

Why do Protestants use the Masoretic text?

Essentially, Protestants want to read the New Testament (about Jesus) and the Bible that Jesus himself read, being the Hebrew Old Testament. Protestants translate their Bibles from the Hebrew and Aramaic (in parts of the book of Daniel) Old Testament and the Greek New Testament.

What did God command the Jews to do with the Torah?

The Jews were entrusted with obeying and preserving the Torah of Moses. God commanded them not to corrupt His message: “Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.” [Deuteronomy 12:32]

What does the Hebrew word ‘Torah’ mean?

The Hebrew word ‘Torah’ literally means instruction or teaching. It is used by Jews and Christians to refer to the first five books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy).

Are there different versions of the Torah?

Here are some examples of texts that contain different versions of the Torah. They are listed in order of oldest surviving manuscript evidence [1]: Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) – These are a collection of texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 inside caves near the Dead Sea.

Why did the Torah change the reference to “sons of Israel”?

In the verses above, it appears that either the authors behind the Masoretic Text and Samaritan Torah changed the reference to “sons of Israel” to make the Torah more Israelite-centric, or the author of the Septuagint changed the reference to “angels of God” to make the Torah less Israelite-centric.