ptolemy ii philadelphus ordered the translation of the old testament into greek.
ptolemy ii philadelphus ordered the translation of the old testament into greek.
who ordered the translation of the old testament into greek?
ptolemy ii philadelphus
the biblical canon began with the officially accepted books of the koine greek old testament (which predates christianity). this "canon", called the septuagint or "seventy", continues to be the old testament of the orthodox faith, along with the new testament's good news (gospels), revelations and letters of the apostles (including acts of the apostles and the epistle to the hebrews). the earliest text of the new testament was written in common or koine greek. the texts of the old testament had previously been translated into a single language, koine greek, in the time of ptolemy ii philadelphus in 200 bc.
history of the eastern orthodox church
even if they do imply non-greek originals, these accounts have been doubted, in part with an argument that the literary quality of the greek of these books indicates that the greek would be the original. this argument extends to the other books where the church fathers accepted greek as the original without debate. the greek new testament's general agreement with the septuagint is also counted as evidence by majority view scholars. aramaic primacists point to quotations from the hebrew (masoretic) old testament in the alexandrian text type that indicate at one point a non-greek speaking audience was addressed (see , , 11:10; mark 1:2; luke 7:27; john 19:37; acts 13:18; romans 9:33, 11:35; 1 corinthians 3:19; 1 peter 2:8). aramaic primacists question why the new testament would quote from the hebrew old testament and not from the septuagint if it was written in greek originally. quotes from the hebrew old testament are present in alexandrian texts that are thought to predate jerome's use of the hebrew old testament for the vulgate.
aramaic new testament