250 BC Event

The Septuagint

Name: The Septuagint
Start: -250

The Hebrew Bible is translated into Greek in Alexandria: a decisive bridge between Judaism and the Hellenistic world.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Ancient Greece 800 BC – 146 BC City-states, philosophy, and the first known democracy.
Rome 509 BC – 476 From the Republic to the fall of the Western Empire.

What was written of it

Europe is moving towards a goal it does not yet know, but whose pull it feels: the association of free and equal peoples.

Giuseppe Mazzini 1835

Faith and the Future

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