Septuagint (pronounced “sep-too-uh-jint”) is the name given to the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. Completed by Jewish scholars in Alexandria in the 3rd century BCE, the Septuagint was a monumental work that made the Hebrew Scriptures accessible to the Greek-speaking world.
The Septuagint played a crucial role in the development of Christianity. The early Church adopted the Septuagint as its official Greek Bible, and it was the primary version of the Bible used by the Greek Fathers of the Church. The Septuagint also had a significant influence on the development of Western culture, as it was the Bible used by the Latin Vulgate, the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church for over a thousand years.
