JEWS-TheTanakh- Is it true the Tanakh is translated from Hebrew which was translated from Greek manuscripts?

The Dead Sea Scrolls written about 200 BCE *prove* that the Hebrew we use in our Bible is exactly the same as the Hebrew from 200 BCE. Our rabbi was in Jerusalem visiting the Shrine of the Book (Dead Sea Scroll exhibit) while a tour guide was talking about the scrolls. In answer to a question, she explained that the scrolls can no longer be read. Our rabbi's young son spoke up and said, "Of course they can!" and he began to reading them for her.

It is the Christian book they refer to as the "Old" Testament that has been translated from the Septuagint (Greek) into Latin, and then into other languages. The Hebrew Bible has been read from the original Hebrew for 3500 years.

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No, you've got something confused. The Tanakh was written in Hebrew and later translated into Greek, from which most of the early translations of the Christian bible were made. By 'early' I mean until some time in the 20th century. There are more recent attempts to produce more accurate translations by going back to the Hebrew.

The Septuagint is a Greek translation from Hebrew. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint I know it's Wikipedia, but I think it's largely accurate.

answer: no, it's not. The original is the Hebrew

The Septuagint was the Greek version of the Hebrew Tanakh.

Jews DID NOT translate the entire Tanakh into the Greek. In fact, they did only

the Torah part - the five books of Moses.

The rest was translated by non Jews, which probably explains some of the sheer

ERRORS that totally CHANGE the entire meaning of the original language.

The Septuagint was then later revised further by the Church - it's not a Jewish

text in any way today and no Jews read it or use it. It's an established

CHRISTIAN text.

For more on the Septuagint: go to the Q&A forum here:

http://www.outreachjudaism.org/

Absolutely not.

With rare exceptions, any Tanakh will use the Masoretic text - which has always been Hebrew. English translations therefore are also done straight from the Hebrew. No intermediate steps using Greek are involved.

No, it is not true. Hebrew is the original language of the Tanakh.

So trying to steal authorship of our Scriptures is the latest sad ploy.

Haan

No, it isn't true. The Hebrew version came first.

No, you've got it totally backwards.