This edition of The Septuagint with Apocrypha (the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament and the apocryphal books of the same linguistic origin) gives the complete Greek text along with a parallel English translation by Brenton.
- Hardcover: 1408 pages
- Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. (April 1, 1986)
- Language: English, Greek
- ISBN-10: 0913573442
- ISBN-13: 978-0913573440
The Septuagint was the Jewish answer to the problem of Greek being the dominate language of its day. Hardly any spoke Hebrew anymore and Jews were so spread out over the ancient world that they wanted to preserve and make available the Jewish scriptures to their people in a language they could read.
ReplyDeleteThe Septuagint simply means "the 70" and refers to the number of scholars who did the translation in Alexandra Egypt. The real importance, other than the preservation of the linguistics was that they translated all of the messianic prophecies and widely distributed them throughout the world 200 years BEFORE the birth of Jesus.
Most Christians like to point to the dead sea scrolls as proof that books like Isaiah were written BEFORE Jesus and not after as some liberals have tried to claim. We didn't need them though, because the Jews provided definitive documentary proof of their pre-existence to the time of Christ.
I ordered that exact volume recently. Good quality binding and printing.
ReplyDeleteThe Septuagint (which you'll also see called the LXX) is a Greek translation from whatever Hebrew documents were available in the middle of the 3rd century B.C. The Hebrew documents we have now (Masoretic Text) date back only to the middle ages, being preserved until then by the Jews.
The LXX is apparently the Scripture known to the writers of the New Testament, as most quotes from Scripture match the LXX language.
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