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AnswerThe Septuagint ('LXX') was the earliest Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures.
False. The Hebrew Scriptures form what Christians know as the Old Testament.
It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they were written by Hebrews in Hebrew by any chance?
356-323 BC, called the Septuagint.
AnswerThe Septuagint ('LXX') was an early Greek translation of all the Hebrew scriptures. At the time of the first translations into Greek, the Hebrew canon had not yet been established, so there was no set guideline as to which books were worthy of translation.The LXX certainly began with the translation of the Pentateuch, as these were regarded as the five most important scriptures, but the project continued until all the scriptures were available to the Jews of the diaspora, who could not read the scriptures in Hebrew.