Assertion: translation | /r/Synonym | the septuagint
Facets:
value: commonly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The translation is known as the "Septuagint", a name that refers to the supposedly seventy translators (seventy-two, in some versions) who were commissioned to translate the Bible at Alexandria, Egypt.
text: The Talmud ascribes the translation effort to Ptolemy II Philadelphus (r. 285–246 BC), who allegedly hired 72 Jewish scholars for the purpose, for which reason the translation is commonly known as the Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, "seventy"), a name which it gained in "the time of Augustine of Hippo" (354–430 AD).
text: The translation now known as the Septuagint was widely used by Greek-speaking Jews, and later by Christians.