Septuagint is the Greek translation

Translated by 72 Jewish scholars I think

I'm familiar with that. The 70 people that translated and compiled the Bible.

Sept = 7, is how I remember it.

I know the Jews are not playing around about translation and copies of the Bible though

Wasn't it in like Egypt or did they go to Greece?

Don't remember

Septuagint literally means 'translation of the 70' in Greek

Part of me thinks it was in Alexandria...

"Seventy-two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek, for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria."

It was Alexandria, Egypt

That's why I think Alexandria, it was for the library.

Probably

Hebrew was not a common language in Egypt even among Jews

Weren't greek and latin the dominant languages at the time?

Greek was basically the official language of the eastern empire

Latin in the west

Hebrew was never a common language, it was strictly holy

When I say dominant, I mean in the world not just Egypt.

Yeah

Any language in Egypt at the time was either Coptic or Greek

Greeks ruled the region for quite a while

Jews may have spoken Aramaic.

Most likely they did

Written in modern square script though

Matthew was probably written in it and translated into Greek at the library. Probably by the author himself

Matthew was the lawyer wasn't he?

or was it doctor...

Tax man

Luke was the doc

ah, i get them crossed 😦

Tax collector

I remember reading a little appendix type thing in my Bible where the rise of the greek and roman empires set the stage for Christianity to explode through the world.

Funnily enough Aramaic is the basis for Jurchen and Mongolian

Greek applied the language, and Roman provided the roads.

Spoken or written or both?

Both

It's influence is found in most languages in Asia. Even Vietnamese

Interesting.

There's like a dozen native speakers of jurchen left

Not too big on learning languages and studying them 😦