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...
...Cardinal Cushing, had given his imprimatur to its Oxford Annotated Bible, an edition of the Revised Standard Version that includes elaborate notes and commentary prepared by leading Protestant scholars. The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha-the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical...
Says Scholar Fischer (who knows by heart the Vulgate and the Greek Septuagint) : "So far, the real surprise is not how much but rather how little essential difference there is between the basic spiritual content of all the versions, despite linguistic and local differences. To gain this recognition may, after all, have a direct bearing on the position of Christianity in our troubled era of today...
...authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek. The Biblical manuscripts from Cave 4, yielding some texts far earlier than either, have considerably raised the prestige of the Septuagint...