What is the name of the Greek Version of the Old Testament?

Answer 1

There is no one single Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, but the earliest translation is knwon as the Septuagint, often abbreviated to 'LXX'. The origins of the LXX are complex, since the books were translated at different times by scholars of varying skill, and preserved with varying fidelity. However, by the early third century BCE the process of translating the Scriptures into Greek was well underway.

In the first and second centuries CE there were more literal renderings, revising the LXX, sometimes almost to the point of constituting new translations. At times New Testament citations of the Old Testament in Greek are literally from or close to the LXX; at other times they are closer to these (or other unknown) revisions.

Answer 2

The first Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, is called the Septuagint, often shortened to LXX. Its translation was underway in the second century BCE, before there was an official Jewish canon.

Answer 3

When Alexander the great swept through the Middle East in the late200's or early 300's B.C., Greek became the prevailing language.

Within about a century, an Egyptian king decided to create a new holding for his renowned library in Alexandria. As legend has it, he asked the high priest in Jerusalem to loan him about 70 top scholars who would translate the five revered books of Moses into Greek. The result---the first Bible translation---became known as the Septuagint, meaning 70.

Abstract from NIVCompact Dictionary of The Bible;.Copyright© 1989 by The Zondervan Corporation

SEPTUAGINT (sdp'tti-ajint). The first and most important of a number of an­cient translations of the Hebrew OT into Greek. The story of the origin of the Septuagint is told in the Letter of Aris­teas, a pseudepigraphical book written in the second half of the second century B.C. It states that Ptolemy II (called Philadelphus, the king of Egypt, 285­247) wished to have a translation of the Jewish law for his famous library in Alexandria. At his request the high priest Eleazer of Jerusalem sent 72 men, 6 from each tribe, to Egypt with a scroll of the Law. In 72 days they translated one section each from this scroll and after­ward decided on the wording together. So the version was called the Septuagint (the translation of the 70, abbreviated Lxx). Later writers elaborated on this story to the effect that the 72 had translated the whole OT (not the Pentateuch only), each independently of the other, in seclusion. The exact agreement of the 72 copies proved the work's inspiration.

It is generally agreed that the Penta­teuch was translated from Hebrew into Greek in Egypt around the time of Ptol­emy II, ca. 280 B.C. The rest of the OT was done at a later date.

Answer 4

The first ever known translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek was called the Septuagint. It is believed to have been translated around 356 BCE to 323 BCE.

The story behind the Septuagint is mostly legend, but the fact is, that the Septuagint translation does exist.

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the "legend" and falsehood of the LXX is the date it was written.

the actual date is about 250 AD.

lots of research and evidence brings this to light.

Answer 5

The 'Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek in the 3rd century BC in Egypt by the Jewish community living there and called the "Septuagint" - (meaning 70) even though supposedly translated by 72 translators.

Later, the New Testament, first in the Greek and later the Latin, was put together in the late 4th Century AD though most all the books that made the final 'cut' were written between 50-100 AD.

The Greek Orthodox church recommends either the Septuagint version in Greek or the King James in English.

Answer 6

Bible is the English of the Greek term 'biblion,' which means "book" or "roll." Its root term 'byblos' means the papyrus plant common in the river banks and marshes along the Nile River.

Answer 7

There is the Septuagint Version, which is a Greek rendering of the Hebrew Old Testament.

Answer 8

I think the Greek Orthodox have their own prayer books.