the Third Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Septuagint
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or The seventy, is the name of the most ancient Greek version of the Old Testament, and is so called because there were said to have been seventy translators.
The accounts of its origin disagree, but it should probably be assigned to the third century before Christ. This ancient version contains many errors, and yet as a whole is a faithful one, particularly in the books of Moses; it is of great value in the interpretation of the Old Testament, and is very often quoted by the New Testament writers, who wrote in the same dialect. It was the parent of the first Latin, the Coptic, and many other versions, and was so much quoted and followed by the Greek and Roman fathers as practically to supersede the original Hebrew, until the last few centuries. The chronology of the Septuagint differs materially from that of the Hebrew text, adding, for example, 606 years between the creation and the deluge. See ALEXANDRIA .
These files are public domain and are a derivative of the topics are from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary published in 1859.
Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Septuagint'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/s/septuagint.html. 1859.
