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Old 08-09-2005, 04:56 AM   #1
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What is the evidence for a BCE date for the Greek translation of Isaiah?
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What is the evidence for a BCE date for the Greek translation of Isaiah?
Philo of Alexandria (who appears to have known very little Hebrew) quotes several times from Isaiah in his Greek works written in Egypt in the first half of the first century CE.

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