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Thread #48397   Message #3929519
Posted By: David Carter (UK)
06-Jun-18 - 05:00 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Shepherds' counting systems: British?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Shepherds' counting systems: British?
Sure, but there is older stuff than Vulgate about. Such as Codex Vaticanus, although that is Greek not Hebrew. And Septuagint, and Peshitta. But I am not sure that there are extant Hebrew versions of the Old Testament from earlier.

So I am not sure whether Threescore and Ten is a translation of an original Hebrew phrase, or of Vulgate, or whether Wyclif made it up.

The problem is that churches get to be theologically possessive about translations.