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Aug 24, 2018 · Also known as the Letter to Philocrates, this letter claims to be written by a courtier of King Ptolemy II named Aristeas, who was supposedly writing to his brother, Philocrates. Scholars have dubbed it “Pseudepigrapha,” which basically means: it isn’t written by who it says it’s written by.
In the long passage in Daniel 11 about the kings of the north and the kings of the south, the original Septuagint of Daniel consistently translates the term 'king of the south' by 'king of Egypt.'. The version of Theodotion, which largely superseded it, has 'king of the south' throughout.
Oct 14, 2024 · The Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Old Testament from the third century BC. Here’s how it influenced early Christianity — and where it’s still in use today.
Aug 12, 2018 · The term Septuagint, meaning “seventy,” actually refers to the seventy-two translators—six from each tribe of Israel—involved in translating the Pentateuch from Hebrew to Greek in the third-century BCE (seventy-two is rounded down to seventy, hence the Roman numeral LXX).
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The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Ancient Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek ...
Sep 24, 2024 · Septuagint, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew. The Septuagint was presumably made for the Jewish community in Egypt when Greek was the common language throughout the region.
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It is called “Septuagint” (Lat. septuaginta, meaning seventy—hence the familiar abbreviation in Rom. numerals, LXX) because of a tradition that the VS was the work of seventy (though some say seventy-two) Jewish elders, in the reign of the monarch Ptolemy II Philadelphus at Alexandria (284-247 b.c.).
