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Essay heading: Bible In Translation outline
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Septuagint has several books in it that were not found in the original OT such as Tobit, Maccabees, The wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon,2,3, & 4.
b. Origen in the third century made an heroic attempt to purify the OT scriptures down to the correct text.
i. His work, the Hexapla, consists of a scroll handwritten which contained 6 different versions in narrow columns... displayed 300 characters
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They were:
1. The Hebrew text
2. Hebrew test transliterated into Greek characters (to help find unvocalized parts of the first column)
3. A severely literalistic Greek rendering made by a proselyte named Aquila who attempted to reproduce the Hebrew words exactly
4. A readable Greek translation by Symmachus
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