regard to their origin, these later translations are to be clearly distinguished from the Septuagint, but as we shall see, the textual transmission of all these documents eventually became closely intertwined. The rise of Christianity from Judaism in the first century of our era is usually given as the reason new Greek versions of the Hebrew Scriptures were needed, though the story is no doubt more complicated.37 The Christian church first flourished in Jerusalem among Jews who recognized Jesus of
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