As for the statement from the Talmud it was even posted by
@Yahudim in a screen shot from one of the videos, (Part 3), in the following post from a different thread where this came up.
The reference given and quoted is from Megillah 9a.
Here is that passage from Sefaria:
Sefaria Translation of Megillah 9a:11 said:
The Gemara continues: And this was due to the incident of King Ptolemy, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt, who assembled seventy-two Elders from the Sages of Israel, and put them into seventy-two separate rooms, and did not reveal to them for what purpose he assembled them, so that they would not coordinate their responses. He entered and approached each and every one, and said to each of them: Write for me a translation of the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, Blessed be He, placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one, and they all agreed to one common understanding. Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text.
The Gemara continues: And this was due to the incident of King Ptolemy, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt,...
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Moreover anyone who reads this passage from the top will plainly see that the passage teaches that the Torah may be written not only in Greek but in any language, aside from the fact that it also teaches that the OG LXX was rendered by such as whom the Most High placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one of them, (as stated in the above quote), and the paragraph concludes with the statement, "
Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text."
The Talmud itself is therefore indeed openly affirming the OG LXX and essentially stating that it was inspired by saying that the Most High placed wisdom in the heart of each and every translator: and not only all of this, but it is also confirming the same thing Josephus and others report concerning the timing and the circumstances, circa 285-280BC, in the reign of one of the Ptolemies, (Ptolemy II Philadelphus, 285-247BC).
Septuagint - Wikipedia:
According to tradition, Ptolemy II Philadelphus (the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt) sent seventy-two Hebrew translators—six from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel—from Jerusalem to Alexandria to translate the
Tanakh from Biblical Hebrew into Koine Greek, for inclusion in his library.[20] This narrative is found in the possibly pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas to his brother Philocrates,[21] and is repeated by Philo of Alexandria, Josephus (in
Antiquities of the Jews),[22] and by later sources (including Augustine of Hippo).[23] It is also found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud:
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That is no less than five historical sources:
1) The Letter of Aristeas
2) Philo of Alexandria
3) Josephus (Antiquities)
4) Tractate Megillah 9a
5) Augustine of Hippo
Moreover, in the introduction to the Brenton English Septuagint Translation, Sir Lancelot Brenton also states that "the earliest writer to give an account of the Septuagint version is Aristobulus, a Jew who lived at the commencement of the second century B.C", (that's now six historical sources). And moreover in this introduction Brenton rightly admits that the story from the Letter of Aristeas does have fanciful elaborations, and yet, goes on to essentially prove that the OG LXX is undoubtedly as old as is claimed by ancient historians and writers, (again, at the very least, at least the Torah portion).
Therefore those who hold the Talmud as authoritative, and yet set about discrediting, marginalizing, and denigrating the OG LXX, are greatly overstepping the limitations of their own self-imposed boundaries they have set for themselves by upholding the Talmud: for the Talmud affirms the OG LXX, even going so far as to state that the translation is correct, and that those who rendered it from the Hebrew Text were given the wisdom from On High to render it as they did.
