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The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Koinē Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew.
The New English Translation of the Septuagint and the Other Greek Translations Traditionally Included under That Title (NETS) is a modern translation of the Septuagint (LXX), that is the scriptures used by Greek-speaking Christians and Jews of antiquity. [1]
The full title of this edition is: Septuaginta: id est Vetus Testamentum Graece iuxta LXX interpretes; this edition was first published in 1935, in 2 volumes, by the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, in Stuttgart. [3] [4] Many reprints were made later. [3] The name of the 2006 revision is known as the Rahlfs-Hanhart, after the revisor Robert Hanhart.
The earliest surviving manuscripts of the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX meaning 70), an ancient (first centuries BCE) translation of the ancient Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek, include three 2nd century BCE fragments from the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy (Rahlfs nos. 801, 819, and 957) and five 1st century BCE fragments of Genesis, Exodus ...
Since the early twentieth century, preparation of the major critical edition of the Septuagint has been centered in Göttingen. From its inception, the project's goal was to produce a comprehensive critical, eclectic edition of the entire corpus of ancient Greek translations known as the "Septuagint" (LXX).
The LXX contains the oldest existing translation of Holy Scripture into any language. It was widely disseminated among ancient Hellenistic Jews, and was later used by Greek-speaking Christians for their Old Testament (see canon). The LXX is the source of the majority of quotations from the Old Testament by writers of the New Testament.
"Mt" here denotes the Masoretic Text; "LXX", the original Septuagint. The oldest manuscript fragments of the final Masoretic Text, including vocalications and the masorah, date from around the 9th century. [b] The oldest-known complete copy, the Leningrad Codex, dates from the early 11th century.
The Roman Septuagint, also known as the Sixtine Septuagint (Sixtine LXX) or the Roman Sixtine Septuagint, is an edition of the Septuagint published in 1587, and commissioned by Pope Sixtus V. [ 1 ] The printing of the book "was worked off in 1586, but the work was not published until May 1587".