Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…th David's everlasting King. References for further review New English Translation of the Septuagint — Esaias New English Translation of the Septuagint — project and electronic edition R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew J. Alec Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah Michael J. Vlach, Th…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…glory fills the earth; verse 5 confirms that Isaiah has seen the King, YHWH of hosts. The Septuagint makes the glory language especially explicit in 6:1 by describing the house as filled with His glory, where the Hebrew describes the train of His robe filling the temple.[^12] Sin…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…ettling the personal identity of every Old Testament appearance. The Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagintal evidence favour a reading involving divine beings in Deuteronomy 32:8. See the fragment in the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. Daniel…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…asoretic Hebrew text names Isaac. The Samaritan Pentateuch names Isaac. The ancient Greek Septuagint names Isaac. The New Testament quotes the Isaac promise and interprets the sacrifice through Isaac. A fragment from Qumran designated 8QGenesis preserves part of Genesis 17, inclu…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…Timothy McLay, introduction and parallel translations in A New English Translation of the Septuagint: Daniel, on Old Greek and Theodotionic Daniel. John J. Collins, Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel, Hermeneia (Fortress Press, 1993), for the critical interpretation invol…
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