11 Facts About Septuagint

Septuagint placed them in 72 chambers, each of them in a separate one, without revealing to them why they were summoned.

Septuagint entered each one's room and said: "Write for me the Torah of Moshe, your teacher".

The Septuagint formed the basis for the Slavonic, Syriac, Old Armenian, Old Georgian, and Coptic versions of the Christian Old Testament.

Septuagint became synonymous with the Greek Old Testament, a Christian canon incorporating the books of the Hebrew canon with additional texts.

The Septuagint order is evident in the earliest Christian Bibles, which were written during the fourth century.

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Manuscripts of the Septuagint have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, and were thought to have been in use among various Jewish sects at the time.

Text of the Septuagint is generally close to that of the Masoretes and Vulgate.

Orthodox Study Bible, published in early 2008, features a new translation of the Septuagint based on the Alfred Rahlfs' edition of the Greek text.

Brenton's Septuagint, Restored Names Version has been published in two volumes.

Holy Orthodox Bible by Peter A Papoutsis and The Old Testament According to the Seventy by Michael Asser are based on the Greek Septuagint text published by the Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece.

In 2012, Lexham Press published the Lexham English Septuagint, providing a literal, readable, and transparent English edition of the Septuagint for modern readers.