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[Rokcet Scientist]

It's all the same thing.

http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo...-Torah.htm

Septuagint, The (Greek Translation of Torah)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah

Torah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The book of the Jewish faith , [...] derived from the ancient Septuagint translation, are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11646c.htm

Pentateuch

Pentateuch, in Greek pentateuchos, is the name of the first five books of the Old Testament.

If a 'Pentateuch' contains 5 books, how does a 'Septuagint' not contain 7 books?

[Justtristo]

It's all the same thing.

http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo...-Torah.htm

Septuagint, The (Greek Translation of Torah)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah

Torah
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The book of the Jewish faith , [...] derived from the ancient Septuagint translation, are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11646c.htm

Pentateuch

Pentateuch, in Greek pentateuchos, is the name of the first five books of the Old Testament.

If a 'Pentateuch' contains 5 books, how does a 'Septuagint' not contain 7 books?

Wasn't the name Septuagint coined because of a legend that said that 70 scholars were involved in translating it.

[Minimalist]

Wasn't the name Septuagint coined because of a legend that said that 70 scholars were involved in translating it.

Yes, according to legend 70 ( or 72) scholars were put in separate compartments by Ptolemy ! of Alexandria and told to write out the whole story of the Torah separately and when the versions were compared they were identical....or so the bullshit story goes.

BTW, Just, I see what your point was from above. In xtian usage now the Septuagint refers to all of the Greek translation of the OT but the original usage was merely the Torah.