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The Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible and the Scriptures read by early Christians. Septuagint studies have been a growth field in the past twenty years. It has become an area of interest not only for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible but as a product of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman world. It is even being utilized occasionally by scholars of Greek religion. At the same...

A further problem is that there is no one Septuagint, not only in terms of the books included, but in terms of the text itself. As explained below (§ V. Text and Manuscripts), there is more than one translation into Greek for many biblical books and different versions exist in the manuscript tradition. Therefore scholars tend to distinguish the Old Greek (OG) from the LXX to indicate the first translation made from Hebrew, as far as it can be reconstructed from the evidence. The LXX is then a general
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