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<blockquote data-quote="Dogface" data-source="post: 331435" data-attributes="member: 6970">And then there are all those books that only appear in the Ethiopian Bible, but I digress here and you digress later.Furthermore, the Masoretic text--the Hebrew version of Scripture that is used as the basis of translating the modern Christian Old Testament--was actually compiled centuries after the beginning of Christianity.&nbsp; Our oldest manuscripts of the Septuagint are actually older than our oldest manuscripts of the Masoretic text.&nbsp; What is interesting is how one word can make a great big difference theologicall.&nbsp;&nbsp; In the 50th Psalm (51st in the Masoretic), there is a line that says &quot;In[to] sins I was born&quot; in the Septuagint.&nbsp; In the Masoretic, it says &quot;In sin I was conceived&quot;.&nbsp; The Septuagint version can be read to mean &quot;I was born into a world full of sin.&quot;--which is how Orthodox theology often interprets it.&nbsp; The Masoretic was read by St. Augustine of Hippo to mean that the very act of sexual conception was a sin--which is how Western theology often interprets it.What is the gaming point of this?&nbsp; It is possible for two very closely-related religions that consult (nearly) the same sources to come up with rather different outlooks.&nbsp; This could also be the case in a Crusaders campaign.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dogface, post: 331435, member: 6970"] [B] And then there are all those books that only appear in the Ethiopian Bible, but I digress here and you digress later. Furthermore, the Masoretic text--the Hebrew version of Scripture that is used as the basis of translating the modern Christian Old Testament--was actually compiled centuries [I]after[/I] the beginning of Christianity. Our oldest manuscripts of the Septuagint are actually older than our oldest manuscripts of the Masoretic text. What is interesting is how one word can make a great big difference theologicall. In the 50th Psalm (51st in the Masoretic), there is a line that says "In[to] sins I was born" in the Septuagint. In the Masoretic, it says "In sin I was conceived". The Septuagint version can be read to mean "I was born into a world full of sin."--which is how Orthodox theology often interprets it. The Masoretic was read by St. Augustine of Hippo to mean that the very act of sexual conception was a sin--which is how Western theology often interprets it. What is the gaming point of this? It is possible for two very closely-related religions that consult (nearly) the same sources to come up with rather different outlooks. This could also be the case in a Crusaders campaign.[/b] [/QUOTE]

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