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    The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), 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, is the earliest extant Greek translation ...

  3. The Septuagint (or simply "LXX") is the name commonly given in the West to the ancient, Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (often called the "Old Testament") translated in stages between the third to first century B.C.E. in Alexandria. It is the oldest of several ancient translations of the Hebrew Bible into Greek.

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › bible-general › septuagintSeptuagint | Encyclopedia.com

    May 23, 2018 · SEPTUAGINT. The accepted name for the earliest translation of the Old Testament into Greek.

  5. 1. Ancient Testimony on the Subject. ⇒ See also the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. (1.) The oldest writer who makes mention of the Septuagint is Aristobulus, an author referred to by Eusebius ( Proepar. Evangel. 13, 12) and Clement of Alexandria ( Stromata, 5, 595).

  6. The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine LXX) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the Septuagint published in 1587, and commissioned by Pope Sixtus V. The printing of the book "was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587".

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