How Does The Septuagint Translate Ps. 22:17 And Is. 7:14

[kenrockthefirst]

I know that there are debates about the translation of the above two texts and Christian interpretation. However, I also know that the translation of the Bible by Jerome drew significantly on the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. Since the Septuagint was completed several hundred years before Christ, I think its translations of the above texts would be telling.

[jswranch]

Correct me if I am wrong, but all Catholic and Prot bibles are based off the Septuagint. Pick up one of these, and you are reading the Septuagint. The difference is that the Prots use the Messoraic cannon (books and chapters) but Septuagint text.

[phatcatholic]

[quote name='jswranch' post='1128968' date='Nov 27 2006, 03:05 PM']
Correct me if I am wrong, but all Catholic and Prot bibles are based off the Septuagint.[/quote]
i don't think that's true. the OT texts were originally written in hebrew, so we try to use the hebrew texts as much as we can when it comes to translation. some of the deuterocanonical books of the OT were originally written in greek, so that's when we would utilize the septuagint.

[kenrockthefirst]

What I'm trying to get at is how Jewish scribes translated now controversial texts prior to Jesus. Did they translate Psalm 22:17 as "like a lion" instead of "they have pierced," or Isaiah 7:14 as "behold a young maiden" as opposed to "behold a virgin?"