Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Recent history of vi Date: 08 Dec 2025 16:13:49 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 21 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <10ga6r1$7ph$1@news.misty.com> <10gpatq$jpt$3@news.misty.com> <69334624$0$11430$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10h175s$2b64m$19@dont-email.me> <10h4noh$3n4no$4@dont-email.me> <10h4usa$3pcqn$1@dont-email.me> <10h784c$bff0$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="3475"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:78516 alt.folklore.computers:232464 Peter Flass writes: > This thread got me interested enough to look up "Septuagint" on > Wikipedia. The story was that one of the Ptolomies gathered 72 Jewish > scholars in Alexandria to translate the Talmud into Greek for his > library, but apparently this is not true, but however it was done, there > was a Greek translation. TaNaKh (Torah, chronicles, and prophets), rather than the Talmud. The myth was that all of the scholars produced the same translation (i.e., a miracle happened). The Jewish writer David Berg opined that if 70 Jewish scholars did the work, there would be 140 versions... -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen