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The Septuagint (/ ˈ s ɛ p tj u ə dʒ ɪ n t / SEP-tew-ə-jint), [1] sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Koinē Greek: Ἡ μετάφρασις τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα, romanized: Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and abbreviated as LXX, [2] is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Biblical Hebrew.
The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, date to c. the 2nd century BCE. Some of these scrolls are presently stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible , including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy ...
Codex Montfortianus, also known as Minuscule 61, is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament written on paper. It is designated by 61 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and δ 603 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. [1] Biblical scholar Erasmus named it Codex Britannicus.
[54]: 1–5 For example, in order to show that Muhammad was the anti-Christ, it was asserted that Muhammad died not in the year 632 but in the year 666. In another variation on the theme the number "666" was also used to represent the period of time Muslims would hold sway of the land.
the complete text of the entire Greek Bible (according to the Alexandrian canon) - leaving only five fragments - and 3 and 4 Maccabees, Odes of Solomon, Psalm 151, and two Epistles of Clement BL, Royal 1 D. VIII London: U. Kingdom: B: Codex Vaticanus: 4th Century; contains Gen 46:28 to Heb 9:14 Vat. Lib., Gr. 1209 Vatican City: C: Codex ...
Papyrus 75 (formerly Papyrus Bodmer XIV–XV, now Hanna Papyrus 1), is an early Greek New Testament manuscript written on papyrus containing text from the Gospel of Luke 3:18–24:53, and John 1:1–15:8.
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Paul E. Kahle, whose theory of a multiple origin of the Septuagint is rejected by Frank Moore Cross and H. H. Rowley [139] and by Anneli Aejmelaeus, [140] said: "We now know that the Greek Bible text did not as far as it was written did not translate the Divine Name by ky'rios, but the Tetragrammaton written with Hebrew or Greek letters was ...