Used by Philo Judaeus and Josephus, this work is preserved in "Codex B" in the Vatican and in "Codex aleph" or Sinaiticus in London.  
Used by Philo Judaeus and Josephus, this work is preserved in "Codex B" in the Vatican and in "Codex aleph" or Sinaiticus in London.  Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned it, begun in 250 BC on the island of Pharos near Alexandria. Originally the name referred only to the Pentateuch, but later it referred to the Greek text of 53 books, including apocryphal and deuterocanonical ones.  FTP, name this Greek translation of the Old Testament, supposed to have been completed in 72 days by 72 scholars.
Used by Philo Judaeus and Josephus, this work is preserved in "Codex B" in the Vatican and in "Codex aleph" or Sinaiticus in London.  
The Septuagint