The Septuagint has much to teach in terms of the lost Hebrew manuscripts of the Tanakh that were used to produce the ancient Greek texts, both in terms of their overwhelming similarity to those ...

Illustration of the Septuagint translators from the Nuremberg Chronicle (aesop/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) ... they searched for the right Greek word to describe the Israelites’ condition.

That the Septuagint is the most authoritative text in the Orthodox Church is something that is confirmed in just about any Orthodox catechetical text you could consult. The Septuagint text is the text ...

The Septuagint Greek Old Testament also mentions two Cainans in Genesis 10:24. The Hebrew Masoretic text, however, mentions only one. When the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in the middle of the ...

Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between 300 and 130 B.C. It derives its name from the seventy or seventy two ...

A number of readers have written in about my August 13 column, “Questioning Virginity.” All have taken issue with my saying that the Greek word parthenos, in the Septuagint’s translation of ...

Answer: The term Septuagint comes from the Latin word for 70. Tradition says that Jews living in Alexandria some 200 years before Jesus spoke Greek as their primary language. They commissioned 70 ...

The Septuagint is a Greek translation of a Hebraic textual tradition that included certain texts which were later included in the canonical Hebrew Bible and other related texts which were not.

The Septuagint is the ancient Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). Our project aims aims at producing a critical edition of the Septuagint version of 2 Samuel. There is a special ...

Though not directly mentioned in the Hebrew canon that became the basis for the Protestant Old Testament, prayers for the departed are encouraged in the Greek Septuagint, on which the Catholic and ...