The Septuagint (LXX)
The Greek Bible of the apostles — and the root of the canon dispute
The Septuagint — traditionally the work of seventy(-two) translators in Alexandria from the third century BCE — was the Greek Bible of the Hellenistic Jewish world and became the Old Testament of the early Church. Most Old Testament quotations in the New Testament follow it, and the Fathers built their exegesis upon it. Its broader canon, including the books later called deuterocanonical, lies at the root of a lasting dispute: Catholic and Orthodox churches receive those books, while the Protestant Reformers returned to the shorter Hebrew (Masoretic) canon. Origen's Hexapla and Jerome's turn to the “Hebrew truth” are landmarks in this long conversation.
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