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

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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...

by their own free agency (Jo. 7:35, Jas. 1:1, 1 Pet. 1:1)1. Such settlements were at first compulsory, and limited to countries east of Palestine. Between the eighth and sixth centuries B.C. the bulk of the population of both the Northern and Southern Kingdoms was swept away by Assyrian and Babylonian conquerors (2 Kings 17:6, 24:14 ff., 25:11 f., 21 f.). A part of the Babylonian captivity returned (Ezra 1:2), but Babylonia and Mesopotamia continued to be the home of a large body of Jewish settlers

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