The Septuagint | (greek)

The story goes that Ptolemy II Philadelphus, wanting the Jewish Torah for his collection, sent word to the High Priest in Jerusalem. He requested the finest minds to translate the Hebrew scrolls into Greek, the lingua franca of the Mediterranean.

This "miraculous" translation became known as the Septuaginta (Latin for "seventy"), often abbreviated as .

The was born in the bustling, scholar-filled streets of 3rd-century BCE Alexandria, where the Great Library sought to collect every scrap of human knowledge.