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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
ancient Bible translation
textual tradition
associatedNumber 70
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basisFor Armenian Bible
Coptic Bible translations
Georgian Bible
Old Latin translations
dateOfOrigin 2nd century BCE
3rd century BCE
fieldOfStudy Septuagint studies
textual criticism
hasAlternativeName Septuagint
surface form: Greek Old Testament

Septuagint
surface form: LXX
hasCanonicalStatus Old Testament canon in Eastern Orthodoxy
hasGenre religious text
hasLanguage Koine Greek
hasOriginalLanguage Aramaic
surface form: Biblical Aramaic

Biblical Hebrew
hasPart Torah
surface form: Greek Pentateuch

Greek Writings
surface form: Greek Prophets

Torah
surface form: Greek Torah

Greek Writings
hasScript Greek alphabet
hasSignificanceIn Christian theology
Jewish studies
biblical studies
hasSubject Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Scriptures
includesBook Book of Deuteronomy
surface form: Deuteronomy

Book of Exodus
surface form: Exodus

Book of Ezekiel
surface form: Ezekiel

Book of Genesis
surface form: Genesis

Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
surface form: Jeremiah

Book of Job
surface form: Job

Torah
surface form: Leviticus

Numbers
Wisdom Literature
surface form: Proverbs

Psalms
The Twelve Minor Prophets
includesDeuterocanonicalBook 1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Additions to Daniel
Additions to Esther
Baruch
Judith
Book of Sirach
surface form: Sirach

Tobit
Book of Wisdom
surface form: Wisdom of Solomon
influenced New Testament authors
namedAfter seventy translators
placeOfOrigin Alexandria
Ptolemaic Kingdom
surface form: Ptolemaic Egypt
preservedIn Codex Alexandrinus
Codex Sinaiticus
Codex Vaticanus
primaryOldTestamentFor Greek-speaking Christians
early Church
quotedIn New Testament
relatedTo Dead Sea Scrolls
Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
surface form: Masoretic Text
textType New Testament manuscripts
surface form: Alexandrian text-type
translatedFrom Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Tanakh
usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek-speaking Jews
Hellenistic Jews
Oriental Orthodoxy
surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches

early Christians

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Bible hasTranslation Septuagint
Koine Greek usedIn Septuagint
Koine Greek primaryLanguageOf Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint manuscripts
Septuagint hasAlternativeName Septuagint
this entity surface form: LXX
Septuagint hasAlternativeName Septuagint
this entity surface form: Greek Old Testament
Vulgate basedOn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Greek Septuagint
Hellenistic Jews produced Septuagint
Tanakh influenced Septuagint
this entity surface form: Christian Old Testament
Book of Jeremiah hasShorterVersion Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint Jeremiah
Lamentations includedIn Septuagint
Apocrypha (in early editions) basedOn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint tradition
Confraternity Bible scripturalSource Septuagint
this entity surface form: Greek Septuagint
1 Samuel alternateName Septuagint
this entity surface form: 1 Kingdoms (in some Septuagint traditions)
2 Maccabees partOf Septuagint
Codex Sinaiticus contains Septuagint
Books of Kings preservedIn Septuagint
Book of Sirach includedIn Septuagint
Baruch partOf Septuagint
Book of Wisdom includedIn Septuagint
Tobit partOf Septuagint
Tobit preservedIn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint manuscripts
Psalm 151 partOf Septuagint
Letter of Jeremiah partOf Septuagint
Letter of Jeremiah partOf Septuagint
this entity surface form: Greek Old Testament
Letter of Jeremiah separateBookIn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint manuscripts
Prayer of Manasseh includedIn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Odes (in some Greek biblical manuscripts)
3 Maccabees partOf Septuagint
Bel and the Dragon includedIn Septuagint
Greek language usedIn Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint (Greek translation of Hebrew Bible)
Susanna partOf Septuagint
this entity surface form: Septuagint tradition of Daniel
Orit relatedTo Septuagint
King Ahasuerus appearsIn Septuagint
1 Esdras partOf Septuagint
Laban religiousTextTradition Septuagint
Habakkuk textualTradition Septuagint
Boaz mentionedIn Septuagint
Psalm 90 includedIn Septuagint
Chronicle usesSource Septuagint
Hexapla hasPart Septuagint
Commentary on Isaiah usesSource Septuagint
this entity surface form: Greek Septuagint
Targums relatedConcept Septuagint