The history of the collection of ancient texts held sacred ...

One way in which they did so was to translate the Hebrew scriptures into Greek (the common language of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean), a translation known as the Septuagint (which includes the apocrypha, additional books not found in the Hebrew scriptures), derived from a Greek word meaning "Seventy" since according to legend 72 scholars ... ................
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