The Septuagint (LXX) — Greek Old Testament
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What this is
The Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures made in Alexandria — the Bible of Greek-speaking Jews and of the early Church, and the version the New Testament writers quote. Brenton's English translation is the standard.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
Compare the Greek Old Testament with the later Hebrew-based English canon.
The Apocrypha / Deuterocanon
Christian
The LXX is why the Apocrypha exist as a category — they were in it.
The Scrolls sometimes agree with the LXX against the standard Hebrew text — a live textual puzzle.