An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (Biblia.com)

An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek is unavailable, but you can change that!

H.B. Swete, editor of the shorter Cambridge Septuagint, has provided in this Introduction a vast amount of information about the Greek translation of the Old Testament (also known as the LXX). Chapters cover the different versions and their manuscripts in detail, survey the contents and organization of the books and discuss their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, and demonstrate the importance of...

(B.C. 205–182). VI. Eupator (B.C. 182). VII. Philometor (B.C. 182–146). VIII. Philopator II. (B.C. 146). IX. Euergetes II., also known as Physkon (B.C. 146–117). Of the brief reigns of Eupator and the younger Philopator nothing is known. The first Ptolemy added considerably to the Jewish population of Alexandria. His expeditions to Palestine and capture of Jerusalem placed in his hands a large number of Jewish and Samaritan captives, and these were conveyed to Alexandria, where many of them acquired

Page 6

Buy this book at Logos.com