Word: septuagint
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...Alexandria 2,200 years ago, a group of 70 Jewish scholars translated the Bible from Hebrew into Greek. Their great work became known to history as the Septuagint, from the Latin word for 70. For adherents of traditional Judaism in later centuries, however, the only true Bible was the Hebrew version. What translations there were lacked official standing; most were turned out by individual translators rather than broadly based committees of scholars...
...first time since the Septuagint, there is a generally, recognized Jewish committee translation from Hebrew into the contemporary usage of another language: English. This new Jewish Bible (what Christians term the Old Testament) has been titled the Holy Scriptures. Completed last month, it is the latest of several major new English Bibles, but all the others were Christian undertakings, beginning with the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952 by the National Council of Churches...