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The "Septuaginta," the translation of the Pentateuch, in use since the third century before the Christian era, had acquainted the classical world with Jewish views and principles.
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Nick Norelli offers first impressions of the Rahlfs-Hanhart Septuaginta.
Around the Biblioblogosphere James F. McGrath 2009
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In the Bible, wherever Cush stands in the Hebrew text, Aithiopia/Aethiopia stands in the Septuaginta Greek translation, and in the Vulgata Latin translation.
Open Letter to HRH, Hamad Bin Khalifa al Thani, on Ethiopia 2008
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Septuaginta olim legiones scriptae dicuntur; quas vires hodie, &c. 555.
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Does divine scripture not say, "There is no one on this earth who is without sin, not even the day-old child" [Job 14: 4, Septuaginta].
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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I weighed it with the Chaldee Targum and the Septuaginta.
Early Theories of Translation Flora Ross Amos
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Morin also published "Biblia graecae sive Vetus testamentum secundum Septuaginta" (Paris, 1628); and in Lejay's "Polyglotte", vol. V (1645), "Pentateuchus hebraeo-samaritanus" and "Pentateuchus samaritanus".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Septuaginta (or LXX) appointed by Ptolemy Philadelphus in the year B.C. 277 to translate the Bible from the original Hebrew tongue into Greek.
The Prince of the House of David, or, Three years in the Holy City 1855
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Prima etas mundi ab Adam usque ad Noe secundum Ebreos continet Mille sexcentos quinquaginta sex annos. secundum Septuaginta interpretes duo
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Greek speaking Christians were using the Septuaginta in their efforts to bring Jews to faith in Jesus Christ 2.
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