Word: septuagint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cardinal Cushing, had given his imprimatur to its Oxford Annotated Bible, an edition of the Revised Standard Version that includes elaborate notes and commentary prepared by leading Protestant scholars. The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha-the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical...
Says Scholar Fischer (who knows by heart the Vulgate and the Greek Septuagint) : "So far, the real surprise is not how much but rather how little essential difference there is between the basic spiritual content of all the versions, despite linguistic and local differences. To gain this recognition may, after all, have a direct bearing on the position of Christianity in our troubled era of today...