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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 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".
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 ...
James: c. 65–85 CE. Like Hebrews, James is not so much a letter as an exhortation; the style of the Greek makes it unlikely that it was actually written by James the brother of Jesus. [91] 𝔓 20, 𝔓 23 (early 3rd century CE) First Peter: c. 75–90 CE [91] 𝔓 72 (3rd/4th century CE) Second Peter: c. 110 CE.
The Greek text was written on papyrus in uncial letters. The text is written in 33 lines per column. The uncial letters are upright and rounded. Iota adscript occurs. [1] It is designated by number 847, 848, and 942, on the list of Septuagint manuscripts according to the modern numbering of Alfred Rahlfs. [2]
Context will always make clear whether volume 70 of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri or the Septuagint is intended. P. Oxy. VIII 1073 is an Old Latin version of Genesis, other manuscripts are probably copies of the Septuagint. Dates are estimated to the nearest 50 year increment. Content is given to the nearest verse where known.
Scroll, Septuagint manuscript: ... Cave 4 was discovered in August 1952, ... James C. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls: N-Z. Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea ...
Page of the codex with text of Ezek 5:12–17 Folio 283 of the codex with text of Ezek 1:28–2:6 Daniel 1–9 in Tischendorf's facsimile edition (1869). Codex Marchalianus, designated by siglum Q, is a 6th-century Greek manuscript copy of the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament) known as the Septuagint.