An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha—the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics ...

Holy Trinity’s 39th annual Greek Festival opens Wednesday at 11 a.m. with a ribbon cutting in front of the church, 300 S. 4th Street, and they’ll present a $2,000 check to this year’s ...

Other significant languages were Greek, the language of the Septuagint – a pre-Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible, the original language of the New Testament and the lingua franca of ...

In the late 16th century , a stream of Greek émigrés passed through the south German university town of Tübingen. After recounting the indignities they had suffered (or claimed to have suffered) under ...

The main intention of the translation was to impose the Greek Septuagint over any other version of the Hebrew Bible. In the translation, moreover, they portray Zeus as another name for the God of ...

The Septuagint, sometimes known as LXX, was developed in the third century BC in Alexandria, Egypt. According to Jewish tradition, seventy (or seventy-two) Jewish scholars painstakingly translated the ...

The Greek Septuagint translation had two distinct orders for the Decalogue, different from all other translations that parallel our Masoretic text.

The comparison of the survival of the diaspora, which survived the dire fate predicted by the Septuagint in Deut. 25:28, to survivors whom Zech. 3:2 applied the term “ a brand plucked from the ...

An expert teacher in Greek and Latin, Rico said that despite the more than 1,600 years that have elapsed since its completion, Jerome’s translation of the Bible — while not perfect, as no ...

In fact, the Greek Septuagint replaces this word directly with the Greek word for ‘Cretan’. However, why does the Bible not use this term all the time when referring to the Philistines? Some ...