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English Translations of the Septuagint

As an addendum to my Bible versions review page, I want to do a separate page comparing the various English translations of the Greek version of the Old Testament, known as the Septuagint or LXX for short, both names meaning “seventy” after the legend that seventy (-two) scribes first translated the Torah from Hebrew into Greek ca. 285 BC by order of King Ptolemy Philadelphus, the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt. Per the legend, as he was building the Great Library of Alexandria he wanted copies every great book in the world, and commissioned the Jews to translate their law into Greek. The Septuagint or LXX later was used to apply to the entire collected Greek translations of the other Old Testament books. Why do we care about such an old translation? It was the Bible of the entire Mediterranean world for centuries, both of many Jewish diaspora as well as the early Christian church Many of the other ancient versions of the Old Testament, including the Old Latin, were translated from this ...

A Simple Layman's Guide to Bible Translations

( This page in PDF ) Over the years, I have purchased many translations (and used several apps) of the Bible in my desire to know God's Word better. Since I do not know Greek and Hebrew, and since I know that perfect translation between two languages is impossible, owning and reading several translations is the best way for the average English speaker to get a good sense of what the divinely inspired authors of the Scriptures wish to say. I will speak on several popular as well as not-so-known translations of the Scriptures (the ones I have come into more than passing contact with) in hopes that the visitors to this site will get some good use out of them. In my reviews, I will go translation by translation and give a general overview of each translation, as well as good points and bad points of each one. I have recently added my special “Deity of Christ” measurement, based on the verses at the end and how they translate passages which teach Jesus’ Godhead....

Hagia Sophia - The Church of Holy Wisdom

The Hagia Sophia ( Ο Αγια Σοφια ) (Greek pronunciation Ah-YEE-ah So-FEE-ah) The Hagia Sophia (aka Saint Sophia, Sancta Sophia, or Church of Divine Wisdom) was first built in the fourth century in Constantinople (now known under the Turkish name of Istanbul). That church was destroyed in a revolt, and the current building was erected on orders of Roman Emperor Justinian I in AD 532 and took five years and 10,000 workers to build. It was the center of the Orthodox Church for a thousand years and also the place of the coronation of the Byzantine Emperors. When Constantinople was captured in 1453 by the Muslim Turks they changed the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, and built several more (including the Sulemaniye and Blue Mosques ) based on the Hagia Sophia. (The four minarets [towers] and some buttressing were added to the building by the Turks.) Ayasofya , as it is now called, b...

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