From: Timster132@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 30 1996 - 04:24:23 EST
From: "Wes C. Williams" <71414.3647@compuserve.com> writes on 29 Jan 96:
>Summary: The LXX copies in pre-Christian times retained the divine name.
>The evidence is that the substitution of YHWH for Kyrios in LXX copies began
>after the first century C.E. (or perhaps late first century)....
Impressive list. Great work.
>"From these findings we can now say with almost absolute certainty that the
>divine name, YHWH, was not rendered by [Kyrios] in the pre-Christian Greek
>Bible, as so often has been thought."
This is really the kicker, in my opinion. For years it has been stressed
that when NT writers spoke of IHSOUS KURIOS ( IC KC as nomina sacra in the
mss), there was a direct connection of Jesus with the KURIOS of the LXX.
Since many of the later copies we have of the LXX have been transcribed by
Christian scribes, it seems that that connection was made much later.
Thanks again, Wes.
Tim Staker, pastor
Poseyville Christian Church
Poseyville, IN USA
Timster132@aol.com
http://home.aol.com/Timster132
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