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.The Septuagint (from the: septuāgintā literally 'seventy'; often abbreviated as 70 in, i.e., LXX; sometimes called the Greek Old Testament) is the earliest extant translation of the. It is estimated that the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the or Pentateuch, were translated in the mid-3rd century and the remaining texts were translated in the 2nd century BCE. The Septuagint was the Koine Greek translation of the Hebrew and was in wide use by the time of and because most Jews could no longer read Hebrew. For this reason it is quoted more often than the Hebrew Old Testament in theparticularly in theby the, and later by the.The full title in: Ἡ μετάφραση τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, 'The Translation of the Seventy', derives from the story recorded in the that the Septuagint was translated at the request of (285–247 BCE) by 70 Jewish scholars or, according to later tradition, 72, with six scholars from each of the, who independently produced identical translations. The miraculous character of the Aristeas legend indicates the esteem in which the translation was held in the ancient and, later, circles.A Greek translation was certainly in circulation among the who were fluent in Greek but not in Hebrew.
The evidence of Egyptian from the period have led most scholars to view as probable Aristeas's dating of the translation of the Pentateuch to the third century BCE. Whatever share the Ptolemaic court may have had in the translation, it satisfied a need felt by the Jewish community, among whom a knowledge of Hebrew was waning before the demands of every-day life. While there are other contemporaneous Greek versions of the Old Testament, most did not survive except as fragments. Modern of the Septuagint are based on the Codices,. Beginning of the Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 11th century.Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt to translate the from into Greek for inclusion in the.This narrative is found in the to his brother Philocrates and is repeated by, in,and by various later sources including.The story is also found in the Tractate of the:King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned.
He entered each one's room and said: 'Write for me the of, your teacher'. God put it in the heart of each one to translate identically as all the others did.Philo of Alexandria, who relied extensively on the Septuagintclaims that the number of scholars was chosen by selecting six scholars from each of the.According to later, according to which the Greek translation was regarded as a distortion of the sacred text and thus not suitable for use in the synagogue, the Septuagint was handed in to Ptolemy on the date of an annual known as the fast and also mourning for the Jewish people. History The date of the 3rd century BCE is supported for the Torah translation by a number of factors including the Greek being representative of early, citations beginning as early as the 2nd century BCE, and early datable to the 2nd century.After the Torah, other books were translated over the next two to three centuries. It is not altogether clear which was translated when or where; some may even have been translated twice into different versions and then revised. The quality and style of the different translators also varied considerably from book to book from a translation to to an interpretative style.The translation process of the Septuagint itself and from the Septuagint into other versions can be broken down into several distinct stages, during which the social milieu of the translators shifted from to.
The translation of the Septuagint itself began in the 3rd century BCE and was completed by 132 BCE initially in but in time elsewhere as well. The Septuagint is the basis for the, Old, Old, and versions of the Christian. Language The Septuagint is written in Koine Greek. Some sections of the Septuagint may contain, which are idioms and phrases based on like. Other books, such as and, show Greek influence more strongly.The Septuagint may also elucidate pronunciation of pre-: many are spelled out with Greek in the translation, while contemporary Hebrew texts lacked.
However, it is unlikely that all ancient Hebrew sounds had precise Greek equivalents. Differences regarding canonicity As the work of translation progressed, the of the Greek Bible expanded. The Hebrew Bible, also called the Tanakh, has three divisions: the Torah (Law), the Neviʾim (Prophets), and the Ketuvim (Writings).
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The Septuagint has four: law, history, poetry, and prophets, with the books of the Apocrypha inserted at appropriate locations.The Torah ( in Greek) has held preeminence as the basis of the canon. It is not known when the (Writings), the final part of the Tanakh, were established, although some sort of selection process must have been utilised, because the Septuagint did not include other Jewish documents such as or or other writings that do not form part of the Jewish canon, which are now classified as. However, the, the, the, the and are included in some copies of the Septuagint, some of which are accepted as canonical by Eastern Orthodox and some other churches. The Septuagint includes books called in Greek, known in English as, itself derived from the Greek words for 'second canon', because they are not included in the. Among these are the first two books of; Tobit; Judith; Wisdom of Solomon; Sirach; Baruch, including the Letter of Jeremiah; additions to Esther; and additions to Daniel.
All of these books are considered by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church as canonical books; to Protestantism, they are the. The Septuagint version of some Biblical books, like and, are longer than those in the. Meanwhile, the Septuagint text of the is shorter than the Masoretic text.Since, mainstream rejected the Septuagint as a valid Jewish scriptural text.
Several reasons have been given for this. First, differences between the Hebrew and the Greek were found. Second, the Hebrew source texts, in some cases, particularly the Book of Daniel, used for the Septuagint differed from the tradition of Hebrew texts, which were affirmed as canonical by the rabbis. Third, the rabbis wanted to distinguish their tradition from the emerging tradition of Christianity, which frequently used the Septuagint. Finally, the rabbis claimed for the Hebrew language a divine authority, in contrast to or Greek. As a result of this teaching, other translations of the into Koine Greek by early Jewish have survived as rare fragments only.In time the Septuagint became synonymous with the Greek Old Testament, a Christian canon of writings which incorporated all the books of the Hebrew canon, along with additional texts. The and Churches include most of the books that are in the Septuagint in their canons.
Churches, however, usually do not. After the, many began to follow the Jewish and exclude the additional texts, which came to be called the, with some arguing against them being classified as Scripture.
See also:All the books of western of the are found in the Septuagint, although the order does not always coincide with the Western ordering of the books. The Septuagint order for the Old Testament is evident in the earliest Christian Bibles, which were written in the 4th century CE.Some books that are set apart in the Masoretic Text are grouped together. For example, the and the are in the Septuagint one book in four parts called Βασιλειῶν ('Of Reigns'). In the Septuagint the supplement Reigns, and it is called Παραλειπομένων ('Of Things Left Out'). The Septuagint organizes the as twelve parts of one Book of Twelve.Some scriptures of ancient origin are found in the Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible. These additional books are;;;; along with the, which later became chapter six of Baruch in the; additions to, namely, the, and; additions to;;;;;;, including the; the; and.Despite this, there are fragments of some deuterocanonical books that have been found in among the found at, whose text in Hebrew was already known from the, has been found in two scrolls (2QSir or 2Q18, 11QPsa or 11Q5) in Hebrew. Another Hebrew scroll of Sirach has been found in (MasSir).: 597 Five fragments from the Book of Tobit have been found in Qumran, four written in and one written in Hebrew (papyri 4Q, nos.
196-200).: 636 appears along with a number of canonical and non-canonical psalms in the Dead Sea scroll 11QPs(a) (named also 11Q5), a first-century CE scroll discovered in 1956. This scroll contains two short psalms which scholars now agree served as the basis for Psalm 151.: 585–586The canonical acceptance of these books varies among different Christian traditions. For more information regarding these books, see the articles, and.Incorporations from Theodotion In the most ancient copies of the Bible, which contain the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, the is not the original Septuagint version but instead is a copy of 's translation from the Hebrew, which more closely resembles the Masoretic text. The Septuagint version was discarded in favor of Theodotion's version in the 2nd to 3rd centuries CE.
In Greek-speaking areas, this happened near the end of the 2nd century; and in Latin-speaking areas, at least in North Africa, it occurred in the middle of the 3rd century. History does not record the reason for this. Reports in the preface to the Vulgate version of Daniel, 'This thing 'just' happened'.
Several Old Greek texts of the Book of Daniel have been discovered recently, and work is ongoing in reconstructing the original form of the book.The canonical is known in the Septuagint as 'Esdras B', and 1 Esdras is 'Esdras A'. 1 Esdras is a very similar text to the books of Ezra-Nehemiah, and the two are thought to be derived from the same original text. It has been proposed that 'Esdras B' is Theodotion's version of this material, and 'Esdras A' is the version which was previously in the Septuagint on its own.
Use Jewish use. See also:The pre-Christian Jews and considered the Septuagint on equal standing with the Hebrew text. Manuscripts of the Septuagint have been found among the in the Dead Sea and were thought to have been in use among Jews at the time.Starting approximately in the 2nd century CE, several factors led most Jews to abandon use of the Septuagint. The earliest Christians used the Septuagint out of necessity, as it was at the time the only Greek version of the Bible and most, if not all, of these early non- could not read Hebrew. The association of the Septuagint with a rival religion may have rendered it suspect in the eyes of the newer generation of Jews and Jewish scholars. Instead, Jews used Hebrew or Aramaic manuscripts later compiled by the and authoritative Aramaic translations, such as those of and.What was perhaps most significant for the Septuagint, as distinct from other Greek versions, was that the Septuagint began to lose Jewish sanction after differences between it and contemporary Hebrew scriptures were discovered (see ). Even tended less to the Septuagint, preferring other Jewish versions in Greek, such as the translation by, which seemed to be more concordant with contemporary Hebrew texts.
Christian use. See also:The Church used the Greek texts since Greek was a lingua franca of the Roman Empire at the time and the language of the Greco-Roman Church, being the language of.The relationship between the apostolic use of the Septuagint and the Hebrew texts is complicated. The Septuagint seems to have been a major source for the, but it is not the only one. Jerome offered, for example, and, and as examples not found in the Septuagint but in Hebrew texts.
Matthew 2:23 is not present in current Masoretic tradition either, though according to St. Jerome it was in. The New Testament writers, when citing the Jewish scriptures or quoting Jesus doing so, freely used the Greek translation, implying that Jesus, his apostles, and their followers considered it reliable.In the, the presumption that the Septuagint was translated by Jews before the era of Christ and that the Septuagint at certain places gives itself more to a interpretation than 2nd-century Hebrew texts was taken as evidence that 'Jews' had changed the Hebrew text in a way that made them less Christological. For example, writes concerning that the Septuagint clearly writes of a virgin (Greek παρθένος, bethulah in Hebrew) that shall conceive, while the word almah in the Hebrew text was, according to Irenaeus, at that time interpreted by Theodotion and, both of the Jewish faith, as a young woman that shall conceive. According to Irenaeus, the used this to claim that Joseph was the biological father of Jesus. From Irenaeus' point of view that was pure heresy, facilitated by late anti-Christian alterations of the scripture in Hebrew, as evident by the older, pre-Christian Septuagint.When undertook the revision of the translations of the Septuagint, he checked the Septuagint in contrast to the Hebrew texts that were then available.
He broke with church tradition and translated most of the of his Vulgate from Hebrew rather than Greek. His choice was severely criticized by, his contemporary. While on the one hand he argued for the superiority of the Hebrew texts in correcting the Septuagint on both philological and theological grounds, on the other, in the context of accusations of heresy against him, Jerome would acknowledge the Septuagint texts as well. With the passage of time, acceptance of Jerome's version gradually increased until it displaced the of the Septuagint.The still prefers to use the Septuagint as the basis for translating the Old Testament into other languages. The Eastern Orthodox Church also uses the Septuagint untranslated where Greek is the liturgical language. Critical translations of the, while using the as their basis, consult the Septuagint as well as other versions in an attempt to reconstruct the meaning of the Hebrew text whenever the latter is unclear, undeniably corrupt, or ambiguous. For example, the Foreword says, 'Only when this (the Masoretic Text) presents insuperable difficulties have emendations or other versions, such as the.
LXX, been used.' The Translator's Preface to the says: 'The translators also consulted the more important early versions (including) the Septuagint. Readings from these versions were occasionally followed where the seemed doubtful.' The inter-relationship between various significant ancient manuscripts of the Old Testament (some identified by their siglum). LXX here denotes the original Septuagint.Modern scholarship holds that the Septuagint was written during the 3rd through 1st centuries BCE; but nearly all attempts at dating specific books, with the exception of the Pentateuch (early- to mid-3rd century BCE), are tentative and without consensus.Later Jewish revisions and of the Greek against the Hebrew are well attested, the most famous of which include the Three: (128 CE), and Theodotion. These three, to varying degrees, are more literal renderings of their contemporary Hebrew scriptures as compared to the Old Greek, the original Septuagint. Modern scholars consider one or more of the 'three' to be totally new Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible.Around 235 CE, a Christian scholar in, completed the, a comprehensive comparison of the ancient versions and Hebrew text side-by-side in six columns, with diacritical markings ('editor's marks', 'critical signs', or 'Aristarchian signs').
Much of this work is lost, but several compilations of the fragments are available. In the first column was the contemporary Hebrew, in the second a Greek transliteration of it, then the newer Greek versions each in their own columns. Origen also kept a column for the Old Greek (the Septuagint), which included readings from all the Greek versions into a critical apparatus with diacritical marks indicating to which version each line (Gr. Στίχος) belonged. Perhaps the voluminous Hexapla was never copied in its entirety, but Origen's combined text ('the fifth column') was copied frequently, eventually without the editing marks, and the older uncombined text of the Septuagint was neglected.
Thus this combined text became the first major Christian recension of the Septuagint, often called the Hexaplar recension. In the century following Origen, two other major recensions were identified by, who attributed these to (Lucianic or Antiochene recension) and (Hesychian or Alexandrian recension). Manuscripts. The canon of the original Old Greek LXX is disputed. This table reflects the canon of the Old Testament as used currently in Orthodoxy. Βασιλειῶν (Basileiōn) is the genitive plural of Βασιλεία (Basileia). That is, Things set aside from Ἔσδρας Αʹ.
also called Τωβείτ or Τωβίθ in some sources. or Tōbeit or Tōbith. Obdiou is genitive from 'The vision of Obdias', which opens the book. Originally placed after 3 Maccabees and before Psalms, but placed in an appendix of the Orthodox Canon. Note that these percentages are disputed. Other scholars credit the Proto-Masoretic texts with only 40%, and posit larger contributions from Qumran-style and non-aligned texts.
The Canon Debate, McDonald & Sanders editors, 2002, chapter 6: Questions of Canon through the Dead Sea Scrolls by James C. VanderKam, page 94, citing private communication with Emanuel Tov on biblical manuscripts: Qumran scribe type c.25%, proto-Masoretic Text c. 40%, pre-Samaritan texts c.5%, texts close to the Hebrew model for the Septuagint c.5% and nonaligned c.25%.References. General. – Comprehensive site with scholarly discussion and links to texts and translations. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. Cambridge University Press.Texts and translations.
(in Hebrew, Greek, Lithuanian, and English). From the original on October 12, 2018. The Old Testament, by Nicholas King, in four volumes. Kevin Mayhew Publishers. Analytical Translation of The Old Testament (Septuagint), by Gary F. Zeolla, 4 volumes with fifth and final volume on the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books to be published in 2015 by LuLu Publishers. A complete work with literal word for word translation.
LXX finder, listing dozens of editions, both print and digital, in various languages and formats. A good place to start. Greek text (full polytonic unicode version) and English translation side by side. Greek text as used by the Orthodox Churches. (advanced research tool).
– contains Septuagint texts (with diacritics) side-by-side with English translations. as a document. Introduction and book abbreviations in Latin. Non-free TrueType font file required. from the Septuagint (LXX) and the Official Greek New Testament text of the Ecumenical Patriarch. – The Septuagint with Apocrypha, translated from Greek to English by Sir Lancelot C.
Brenton and published in 1885, with some language updates by Michael Paul Johnson in 2012 (American English)The LXX and the NT. by John Salza. –.