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Usage of Greek in Jewish communities
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i believe this has some value to some of us:


http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-anci...otten.html
Excerpts:
Quote:Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history

New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the
Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.

The study by Cambridge University researchers suggests that, contrary
to long-accepted views, Jews continued to use a Greek version of the
Bible in synagogues for centuries longer than previously thought. In
some places, the practice continued almost until living memory.

The key to the new discovery lay in manuscripts, some of them mere
fragments, discovered in an old synagogue in Egypt and brought to
Cambridge at the end of the 19th century. The so-called Cairo Genizah
manuscripts have been housed ever since in Cambridge University
Library.

Close study of the Cairo Genizah fragments by Professor de Lange led to the discovery that some contained passages from the Bible in Greek written in Hebrew letters. Others contained parts of a lost Greek translation made by a convert to Judaism named Akylas in the 2nd century CE. Remarkably, the fragments date from 1,000 years after the original translation into Greek, showing use of the Greek text was still alive in Greek-speaking synagogues in the Byzantine Empire and elsewhere.
Jesus is the one true God of the Bible.
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