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1. Septuagint: 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 ... [100%] 2023-02-03
2. Septuagint: The Septuagint (/ˈsɛptjuədʒɪnt/ 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 of the Hebrew ... (Greek translation of Hebrew scriptures) [100%] 2023-11-11 [Septuagint] [Early versions of the Bible]...
3. Septuagint: The Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, originated in Alexandria in about the 3rd century BCE. Legend states that seventy scribes produced the text in seventy days (the name "Septuagint" comes from the Latin septuaginta, literally: "seventy"); it ... [100%] 2023-08-12 [Scriptures] [Bible analysis]...
4. Septuagint: The Septuagint (pronounced, sep-tjoo-uh-jint, literally "Interpretation According to the Seventy," as requested by Ptolemy II) is the first translation of the Hebrew Old Testament of the Bible into any foreign language—and specifically the classical Greek and ... [100%] 2023-02-18 [Christianity] [History]...
5. The Septuagint: The Septuagint, or the "Alexandrian version of the Old Testament," so named from the legend of its composition by seventy, or more exactly seventy-two, translators. In the Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates 1 this legend is recounted as follows ... [70%] 2022-09-02
6. The Fourth Book Of The Bible, Which Takes Its Title From The Latin Equivalent Of The Septuagint: BOOK OF NUMBERS, The Fourth Book Of The Bible, Which Takes Its Title From The Latin Equivalent Of The Septuagint ApLBµoi. While the English version follows the Septuagint directly in speaking of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy, it follows the ... [24%] 2022-09-02
7. Septuagint, 2: SEPTUAGINT, 2 VI. Reconstruction of Septuagint Text; Versions, Manuscripts and Printed Editions. The task of restoring the original text is beset with difficulties. The materials (MSS, VSS, patristic citations) are abundant, but none has escaped "mixture," and the principles for ... [70%] 1915-01-01
8. Septuagint, 1: SEPTUAGINT, 1 sep'-tu-a-jint: I. IMPORTANCE II. NAME III. TRADITIONAL ORIGIN 1. Letter of Aristeas 2. Evidence of Aristobulus and Philo 3. Later Accretions 4. Criticism of the Aristeas Story 5. Date 6. Credibility IV. EVIDENCE OF PROLOGUE ... [70%] 1915-01-01
9. Almodad (Septuagint And Vulgate, Read El-Modad): The meaning of the name is uncertain. The first element, "Al," may be the Arabic article, and the second perhaps a corruption of "Maudad" (see Joktan). (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [37%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
10. Eldad And Medad (Modad According To The Septuagint): Two men who prophesied in the camp during the wanderings in the wilderness. According to an old rabbinical tradition, they predicted the war with Gog and Magog. The king from the land of Magog will unite all the hosts of ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [35%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Accad Or Akkad (Archad, Septuagint, Or In Some Manuscripts, Achad): Biblical Data: Word occurring once in the Old Testament, as the name of a city; one of the four cities which formed the beginning of the kingdom of Nimrod. On the Assyrian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets Akkad appears as the ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [31%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]