![]() ![]() For example, the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings are in the LXX one book in four parts called Βασιλειῶν ('Of Reigns'). Some books that are set apart in the Masoretic Text are grouped together. 3rd century BCE), only the Torah first and then the Tanakh began to be translated into Greek and expanded, now referred to as the Septuagint or the Greek Old Testament. Lim, a professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Edinburgh, says that the Old Testament is 'a collection of authoritative texts of apparently divine origin that went through a human process of writing and editing.' He states that it is not a magical book, nor was it literally written by God and passed to mankind.Parallel to the solidification of the Hebrew canon (c. Riches, Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow, says that 'the biblical texts themselves are the result of a creative dialogue between ancient traditions and different communities through the ages', and 'the biblical texts were produced over a period in which the living conditions of the writers – political, cultural, economic, and ecological – varied enormously'. ![]()
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