A Protestant Bible Question?

1] The Septuagint was translated in Alexandria to Greek about 400 BC, as greek was the common language at that time. Jews dispersed after the babylonian captivity, some went to Alexandria and they established their own community there. Hence, they became greek-speaking Jews. The Sept was the OT scriptures that Jesus used when preaching in the temple. It is the authorized version for about 500 yrs before the council of jamnia.

2] The Jew was said to cannonized their own OT version somewhere in 90AD in Jamnia.. as a result of the pressure from the stronger and ever growing christianity. Jews were persecutors and enemies of the Christians at that time.

3] right here, if you are a christian, your OT is THE Septuagint and NOT the Jewish text, as fundamentally the Jewish were anti-christian.

4] So, the prots who are caths with a small letter 'c' are per se subscribers to the Septuagint and not the jewish version.

First question: I do not know of any teachings that know of saying that the Catholic version of the OT (Hebrew: Tenach) is not valid, and accept the Catholic version as the Word of God. I would prefer using the Hebrew Titles insted of what it was given by the Greeks.

Second question: The Torah is Pentateuch and the name Pentateuch means "five books" which are the first five books of the Tenach.

The word "bible" means book or books(again from the Greek) which is a set of books or writings There is nothing wrong with using Greek. Remember that most of the old Roman Empire spoke Greek and a lot of the words used we use today, as a lot of Latin words.

BTW the word "Christ" comes from the Greek word "Christos" which means "anointed." This word "anointed" means the same as the Hebrew word "mesiack" or Messiah.

No-one ever claimed the Greek version (Septuagint) were invalid. Here is a quick history lesson for my Roman Catholic friend.

The word Apocrypha means hidden or secret. Origin, the term Apocrypha is generally applied to a collection of books, ranging from 11 to 16 in number, which appeared between the Old and New Testaments.

They have come down to us in more or less close connection with the canonical books of the Bible. They have had an unusual history. Ecclesiastical opinion in various periods has differed widely as to the value of the literature. The Jews of the Dispersion in Egypt held a high regard for these books and included them in Greek translation of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, but they were rejected from the Hebrew canon by the Jews of Palestine.

The Roman Catholic Church in the Council of Trent 1546 AD, declared 11 of the books to be canonical and these appear in modern Catholic editions of the Scriptures.

The Protestant Church commonly agrees that some of these books contain material of literary merit and historical value. Their canonicity, however, has been rejected, and they have been gradually omitted from the most modern editions of the Bibles for the following reasons:

1. They were never quoted by Jesus, and it is doubtful if they were alluded to by the apostles.

2. Most of the early Fathers regarded them as uninspired.

3. The inferior quality of most of the writings, as compared with the canonical books, stamps them as unworthy of a place in the sacred Scriptures.

What do the names of the books have to do with the Septuagint? The Septuagint was a Greek translation from the Hebrew text, created for the use of Hellenized Jews (Jews who had adopted Greek language and culture). That community used it for ordinary study, but would still use the Hebrew for synagogue readings. (As the Aramaic speaking communities used the Targum for regular study, but the Hebrew in the synagogue.)

Jews today do not use the Septuagint, since the only Hellenized Jews would be those living in Greece or Cyprus. They use the Masoretic text, which is Hebrew. I would personally put more faith in the Hebrew text.

Greek or Hebrew, what is there with catholic church. Please read Holy Bible. and see the difference. In churches, are they using Bible? They use some books. WHy churches are not using Bible. If they use, people will come to know Jesus more so devil doesnt allow that. They keep bible in shelfs as a holy book. The words written in that is the food to your spirit. The Bible keeps the man away from Devil and Devil keeps the man away from Bible. You may know much about greek and hebrew and may know everything about Bible? But did you know Jesus as your lord and saviour? Thats the experience with this wonderful saviour. He is alive today, he talks to you, guide you, he is a loving heavenly father. Nice that you got good knowledge about all these things but main thing is your relation with this heavenly father. Jesus is not catholic or protestant.

Christos is a Greek given name meaning "the anointed", and a version of the Christian theological term for the Messiah

The proper name Jesus, sometimes referring to Jesus of Nazareth, the central figure of the New Testament, is attested in English from the 12th century (spelled Iesus or Ihesus), transliterating the Greek word Ίησους (Iēsous), from the original Hebrew Yeshua or Yehoshua (i.e. Joshua).

Another question to ask, why do they use the Greek Name Jesus instead of the Hebrew name Yeshua?

Mary would have never given her son a Greek Name.

Would it change the argument substantially if we used different names for the books?

Your real question is why do Protestants follow some Catholic traditions while discarding others. The answer is that we tend to follow Catholic norms unless there is a specific reason to reject them. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel after all.

After all, to turn your question around, why do Catholics use a different old testament from the Orthodox when Catholics borrow so many Greek naming traditions?

It's just not a very convincing argument.

Vot never heard anyone call the Septuagint "invalid".

And doesn't a rose by any name smell as sweet?

It's the traditional names that Christians are familiar with. It doesn't matter what they are called, what matter is what is held within those books.