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Septuagint

The earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the Hebrew, made in Egypt from the 3rd century BCE.

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Dates
c. 300 BCE – c. 100 BCE
Place
Alexandria
Also known as
LXX, Greek Old Testament

The Septuagint is the Greek form of the Jewish scriptures. How it came to be is told two ways: see Translation of the Septuagint.

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  • Translation of the Septuagint According to Letter of Aristeas Primary record 1

    The letter says King Ptolemy II asked for the translation and the High Priest Eleazar sent six elders from each tribe of Israel. Britannica says the letter is an unreliable source (see c2).

  • Translation of the Septuagint Scholarship & press 2

    Britannica adds that the legend of translators sent from Jerusalem at Ptolemy II's request comes from the Letter of Aristeas, “unreliable” as a source.

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  • Torah Scholarship & press 2

    The Septuagint covers the whole Old Testament; Britannica says its Torah part came first.

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  1. c. 300 BCE – c. 100 BCE Septuagint
Proof 2 sources
  1. The Letter of Aristeas (R. H. Charles, ed.), Christian Classics Ethereal Library (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913), 1913. Primary record
    asking him to send six elders out of every tribe - men who have lived the noblest life and are most skilled in their law
    it so chanced that the work of translation was completed in seventy-two days, just as if this had been arranged of set purpose.
  2. Septuagint, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Scholarship & press
    Analysis of the language has established that the Torah, or Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament), was translated near the middle of the 3rd century bce and that the rest of the Old Testament was translated in the 2nd century bce.
    Another legend holds that the translators were sent to Alexandria by Eleazar, the chief priest at Jerusalem, at the request of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285–246 bce), though its source, the Letter of Aristeas, is unreliable.
    Septuagint, the earliest extant Greek translation of the Old Testament from the original Hebrew.
    Indeed, St. Jerome used the Septuagint to begin his translation of the Vulgate Old Testament in 382 ce.
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