septuagint

plural septuagints

1. archaicA group of 70 people or a collection of 70 things.

   This tenebrosity of the interior, he proceeded to say, hath not been illumined by the wit of the septuagint nor so much as mentioned for the Orient from on high which brake hell’s gates visited a darkness that was foraneous.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 376

plural Septuagints

1. archaiccountableuncountableThe team of translators who produced the Septuagint.

   Synonyms: LXX

2. countableuncountablebiblicalAn influential Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible produced in Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.

   Other important works appeared that continued the discussion about the position of the Septuagint within postclassical Greek.

   2022, William A. Ross, Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography, SBL Press, page 42

   2 more examples

   2006, Katrin Hauspie, Theodoret and Messianic Verses in the Septuagint version of Ezekiel, Michael Anthony Knibb (editor), The Septuagint and Messianism, Leuven University Press, Peeters Publishers (Peeters Leuven), page 503, Traces of messianism in the Septuagint have occupied scholars for years; the Book of Ezekiel too has challenged attention in this specific domain of research.

   2009, Jan Joosten, The Prayer of Azariah (DanLXX 3): Sources and Origin, Johann Cook (editor), Septuagint and Reception, BRILL, page 5, The Septuagint originated, for the most part, as a translation of a source text. As such it represents a link—and a very important one—in the reception history of the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures. But the Septuagint very soon turned into a literary and religious reference in its own right. […] The Septuagint itself became the starting point for a new reception history.