Septuagint.
The first was called the Septuagint. However, there are numerous Greek translations of the Old Testament now.
No the answer is Septuagint
Yes, the Greek Septuagint translation of what is now called the Old Testament by Christians.
The Hebrew Old Testament is written in Hebrew. The original Catholic Old Testament was translated from the Greek Septuagint (a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture made in the 3rd century B.C.) to Latin, and together with the Latin New Testament was called the Vulgate. Today the Catholic Old Testament is still in Latin, but there are venacular translations available everywhere.
At the time the Old Testament was written none of the books were written in Greek, but about the 2nd or 3rd century B.C. the Old Testament was translated into Greek and is called the Septuagint.
Ancient Greek translation of the Jewish scriptures. This was an Old Testament source for early Christians.
AnswerPope Damasus commissioned Jerome to begin translating the New Testament from Greek into Latin. He continued the task after Damasus' death and began the translation of the Old Testament form both Greek and Hebrew.
The Tanakh (also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach) is a name for the cannon of the Hebrew bible, which became the Old Testament adopted by Christians. The Tanakh includes the written Torah (or Pentateuch) which is the name for the first five books of the Bible.The Septuagint, or simply "LXX", is an Ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. In time this was referred to as the Greek translation of Old Testament.
Christian Greek Scriptures known as the New Testament
A:No. The Septuagint was a flawed early translation of the Hebrew scriptures from Hebrew and, to a small extent, Aramaic into Greek.
A very important translation of the Old Testament ('Hebrew Scriptures / Hebrew Bible') into Greek was the Septuaginttranslation.'LXX' (Roman numerals for '70') is an abbreviation for this translation.There are also other translations of the Hebrew scriptures into Greek, but the LXX is the oldest, and is very highly regarded.For more information, see Related links below.
There are no books called "letters" (or epistles) in the Hebrew Old Testament. All books that are designated as "letters" are Greek, and found in the New Testament.