Reply To: Were there 70 Versions of the Greek Septuagint?

I’m going with the professor is going off the incorrect sources, based on what I believe from Judaism here.

The professor studied Latin, and he is an Old English anguage scholar. He is likely coming from a secular NT angle.

Yesterday while listening to his audiobook, he was talking about mistranslations in literature can change reality.

For example, mistranslating the ray of light coming from Moses as “horns” meant that for 100s of years, Moses was painted or created with horns*.

Just see Michaelangelo’s Moses sculpture — by the time Michaelangelo created it, the mistranslation was caught and people knew Moses didn’t have horns, but Michaelangelo still depicted him with horns because he was following the traditional lineage of his predecessors’ (Professor D).