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Richard R. Ottley provides a thorough history of the Septuagint. Chapters cover the different versions and their manuscripts, survey the contents and organization of the books, discuss their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, and demonstrate the importance of the LXX in later writings. Ottley also explores the language and style of the Septuagint, and more.
one belongs to A.D. 916). And the ‘Septuagint’ is, roughly, the O.T. in Greek; with a little more accuracy, it is a translation of the O.T. into Greek, with certain additional books, some, doubtless, translated, some originally composed in Greek. It is called the ‘Septuagint’ (usually abbreviated ‘LXX.’) because of a tradition that it was made by seventy, or more precisely seventy-two Jewish elders, at Alexandria, in the reign (284–247 B.C.) of Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of Egypt. Any visitor to
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