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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
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Subject: Re: Acceptance of Isaiah
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 08:37:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 08:37:11 1984
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Steve,

What standing does the Septuagint(sp ?) have in the Jewish
tradition?  This Greek translation of the scriptures by 70
Jewish Scholars in about 200 BCE (in Alexandria, Egypt?)
translates Is 7:14 - "almah" - young woman as the Greek
word "parthenos" which means virgin in the usual sense of
the English word.  Does this contribute to the solution
or the problem?

Bob Brown {...pur-ee!inuxc!ihnp4!clyde!akgua!rjb}
AT&T Technologies, Inc.............. Norcross, Ga
(404) 447-3784 ...  Cornet 583-3784