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The Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, ”seventy”. The legend narrates that the fathers of the library
When Alexander the Great founded Alessandria, decided to translate the Old Testament into Greek.
he had a great library of antiquities built, which They called six wise men from twelve different Israeli

also contained texts from the Old Testament. Many tribes and shut them in separate rooms. In seventy-two
Jewish people who respected and practiced the Old days each of them translated every text identically, as
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS SEPTUAGINT SOLID, 2013 WOOD SCULPTURE Ø59.8 IN. | 152 CM.
if they had been guided by the hand of God.
Testament lived in that same city.

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