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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 😦
You know them better as manchus
What is jurchen anyways?
Mostly in West Syria
The people who ruled China from the 1600s to 1911
oh ok