Septuagint
Originally the term meant the ancient Greek Old Testament. The term is derived from the Latin word septuaginta (seventy) and is based on the legend that is given in the Letter of *Aristeas according to which the Greek translation of the ...
In the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) the translation of 'satan' is given as 'diabolos' meaning 'Devil'. Both terms are usually employed synonymously.
The Letter of Aristeas , a propagandistic account of the translation of the Septuagint by the seventy-two rabbis into Greek. This translation was commissioned by the Museum's founder, Demetrius, under the patronage of Ptolemy I, Ptolemy Soter.
This is the Septuagint version.
The Jewish philosopher Philo Judeus (his name is Greek and means 'friend of the Jews'), a contemporary of Jesus, wrote an explanation in Greek of the Torah, ...
The Septuagint: Theological and Academic Resources
The Septuagint: Theological and Academic Resources for the Study of the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions
Kulikovsky: Biblical Hermeneutics: The Science of Interpreting the Bible ...
Quandoquidem trecentae et septuaginta septem de primis duabus radicibus combinationes agnoscunt Cabalistae, iccirco totidem viros earundem significatores certa serie institui, iisdemque propria atria, ...
xxxii, 8, 9, Septuagint). To many modern readers the latter part of that sentence, "the Lord", may sound surprising, for they are accustomed to connect that word with the Supreme God; ...
For it is only owing to deliberate mistranslation that the Hebrew word asdt was translated "angels" from the Septuagint, while it means Emanations, AEons, just as with the Gnostics.
 See also: Christ, Jesus, Philo, Mater, World
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