The Torah is translated into Greek
Between the Testaments · Draft · BSB
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Date: Third century BC · Beginnings of the Greek Torah
Jewish scholars in Alexandria translate the Torah into Greek. This is the beginning of the wider Greek scriptural tradition often called the Septuagint, which develops over time rather than as one single translation of every biblical book.
The translation belongs to Jewish life before Christianity. Ancient origin stories and the historical work of translation are not identical kinds of evidence. The atlas does not assign a precise year, translator’s house or single finished edition to this long process.
Historical sources and canon context
Historical background. The sources below open externally; they are separate from the app’s bundled Bible text. Related Bible passages provide comparison or later context.
Gilles Dorival: The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople
Author’s scholarly overview places the Greek Torah in third-century BC Alexandria and traces its later reception.
Primary Scripture
No primary biblical passage is assigned to this historical-background event. Consult its external sources.
Related Scripture
These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.
The command to teach the law offers a classroom comparison about transmitting Scripture across generations, not a prediction of this translation.
Location evidence
Alexandria locates the city associated with the Greek Torah’s origins, not an identified library room or workshop.
Event map marker: Identified site; [longitude, latitude] = [29.8965, 31.1825]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Alexandria: Identified site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [29.8965, 31.1825]. Classification source: editorial.
OpenBible.info: Alexandria (CC BY 4.0)
OpenBible.info: Alexandria (CC BY 4.0)
For the class
What does translation make possible for a community whose everyday language has changed?
Interpretation and reuse
Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.
Record source: editorial (content/authored/between-testaments.json)
Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.
Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm