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History of Translation

By Patricia95p
  • The Early Period
    4 BCE

    The Early Period

    The translation of the Bible from Hebrew to Greek is known as the “Septuagint”, a name that refers to the seventy scholars who were commissioned to translate the Hebrew Bible in Alexandria, Egypt.
  • First Century BCE
    4

    First Century BCE

    Cicero famously cautioned against translating “word for word’’ - “I did not think I ought to count them [the words] out to the reader like coins, but to pay them by weight, as it were”.