2.65. Septuagint

A Greek translation of the Old Testament commissioned at Alexandria, Egypt. “It was in that period (c. https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/https://media.swncdn.com/biblestudytools/reference/commentaries/revelation/250-c. 150 B.C.), that the Hebrew Old Testament was being translated into Greek, the first time it had ever been extensively translated. The leaders of Alexandrian Jewry had a standard Greek version produced, known as the LXX, the Greek word for ’seventy.’ It was undoubtedly translated during the third and/or second centuries B.C. and was purported to have been written as early as the time of Ptolemy II in a Letter of Aristeas to Philocartes (c. 130-100 B.C.).”¹

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Notes

¹ Norman L. Geisler and William E. Nix, A General Introduction to the Bible (Chicago, IL: Moody Press, 1986), 503.