Greek translation of the *Bible. The Septuagint is so called because it is supposed to have been translated by seventy scholars. It dates from the 3rd Century BCE and some early manuscripts (e.g. the Codex Sinaiticus and the Codex Alexandricanus) still...

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The Septuagint (IPA: /ˈsɛptuədʒɪnt/), or simply "LXX", is a collection of Jewish scriptures, largely the Hebrew Bible, in Koine Greek, translated in stages between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC in Alexandria.[1] It incorporates the oldest of several...