“Death has been swallowed up
in victory!” Paul quotes Isa 25:8, but the quotation does
not follow the MT exactly and is very different from the LXX. But his quotation
agrees word for word with Theodotion Isaiah (a Greek translation of Hebrew
Isaiah by Theodotion in the late second century AD), suggesting that Paul is
here using a Greek translation of Isaiah in agreement with the “proto-Theodotionic”
or “Kaige-Theodotion” revision of the LXX (first century BC) first
isolated by Dominique Barthélemy. (James P. Ware, The Final Triumph of God:
Jesus, the Eyewitnesses, and the Resurrection of the Body in 1 Corinthians 15 [Grand
Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2025], 394)
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