Septuagint

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The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that became the primary Old Testament text for early Christians and Greek-speaking Jews.


Statements (71)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
ancient Bible translation
textual tradition
associatedNumber 70
72
basisFor Armenian Bible
Coptic Bible translations
Georgian Bible
Old Latin translations
dateOfOrigin 2nd century BCE
3rd century BCE
fieldOfStudy Septuagint studies
textual criticism
hasAlternativeName Greek Old Testament
LXX
hasCanonicalStatus Old Testament canon in Eastern Orthodoxy
hasGenre religious text
hasLanguage Koine Greek
hasOriginalLanguage Biblical Aramaic
Biblical Hebrew
hasPart Greek Pentateuch
Greek Prophets
Greek Torah
Greek Writings
hasScript Greek alphabet
hasSignificanceIn Christian theology
Jewish studies
biblical studies
hasSubject Hebrew Scriptures
includesBook Deuteronomy
Exodus
Ezekiel
Genesis
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Job
Leviticus
Numbers
Proverbs
Psalms
The Twelve Minor Prophets
includesDeuterocanonicalBook 1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Additions to Daniel
Additions to Esther
Baruch
Judith
Sirach
Tobit
Wisdom of Solomon
influenced New Testament authors
namedAfter seventy translators
placeOfOrigin Alexandria
Ptolemaic Egypt
preservedIn Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
primaryOldTestamentFor Greek-speaking Christians
early Church
quotedIn New Testament
relatedTo Dead Sea Scrolls
Masoretic Text
textType Alexandrian text-type
translatedFrom Hebrew Bible
Tanakh
usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Orthodox Church
Greek-speaking Jews
Hellenistic Jews
Oriental Orthodox Churches
early Christians

Referenced by (45)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1 Esdras
2 Maccabees
3 Maccabees
Baruch
Letter of Jeremiah
Letter of Jeremiah ("Greek Old Testament")
Psalm 151
Susanna ("Septuagint tradition of Daniel")
Tobit
partOf
Bel and the Dragon
Book of Sirach
Book of Wisdom
Lamentations
Prayer of Manasseh ("Odes (in some Greek biblical manuscripts)")
Psalm 90
includedIn
Books of Kings
Books of the Maccabees
Tobit ("Septuagint manuscripts")
preservedIn
Apocrypha (in early editions) ("Septuagint tradition")
Vulgate ("Greek Septuagint")
basedOn
Septuagint ("LXX")
Septuagint ("Greek Old Testament")
hasAlternativeName
Book of Jeremiah
Habakkuk
textualTradition
Greek language ("Septuagint (Greek translation of Hebrew Bible)")
Koine Greek
usedIn
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Second Temple Judaism
usesScripture
1 Samuel ("1 Kingdoms (in some Septuagint traditions)")
alternateName
King Ahasuerus
appearsIn
Letter of Aristeas
associatedWith
Codex Sinaiticus
contains
Book of Jeremiah ("Septuagint Jeremiah")
hasShorterVersion
Bible
hasTranslation
Tanakh ("Christian Old Testament")
influenced
Boaz
mentionedIn
Peshitta
oldTestamentSourceTradition
Koine Greek ("Septuagint manuscripts")
primaryLanguageOf
Eastern Orthodox canon
primaryOldTestamentSource
Hellenistic Jews
produced
Orit
relatedTo
Laban
religiousTextTradition
Confraternity Bible ("Greek Septuagint")
scripturalSource
Letter of Jeremiah ("Septuagint manuscripts")
separateBookIn
Chronicle
usesSource

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