SEPTUAGINT

Friday, September 19, 2025 10:47PM

• refers to the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy
• abbreviated as LXX
• earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew
• "laws of the Jews
• "translated into the Greek language at the rquest of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-247BC) by seventy-two Hebrew translators-six from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel (Is/ra/el).
• Latin name of Septuagint was assigned around 354AD-430AD.
• Torah of Moshe
• Plato and Pythagorus "knew the Jewish law and borrowed from it"
• " The Septuagint is written in Koine Greek. Some sections contain Semiticisms, which are idioms and phrases based on Semitic languages such as Hebrew and Aramaic."
• "The Septuagint has been rejected as scriptual by mainstream Rabbinic Judaism"
• "The Septuagint became synonymous with the Greek Old Testament"
• "All the books in Western Old Testament biblical canons are fund in the Septuagint"
• "Some ancient scriptures are found in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew Bible"
• "Fragments of deuterocanonical books in Hebrew are among the Dead Sea Scrolls"
• Manuscripts

Friday, September 19, 2025 11:11PM