Septuagint
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The Septuagint, from the Latin word septuaginta (meaning seventy), is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek. The title and its Roman numeral acronym "LXX" refer to the legendary seventy Jewish scholars that completed the translation as early as the late 2nd century BCE. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the "Greek Old Testament" ("Η μετάφραση των Εβδομήκοντα'"). This translation is quoted in the New Testament, particularly in the writings of Paul the Apostle, and also by the Apostolic Fathers and later Greek Church Fathers.
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See also
- Brenton's English Translation of the Septuagint
- Alfred Rahlfs — editor of a commonly distributed critical edition of LXX.
- La Bible d'Alexandrie
- Documentary hypothesis — discusses the theoretical recensional history of the Torah/Pentateuch in Hebrew.
- Tanakh at Qumran — some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are witnesses to the LXX text.
- Septuagint manuscripts
- Vulgate
- Book of Job in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts
- Hellenistic Judaism
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