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The Tenakh was not a book but a collection of scrolls from which Jewish scribes translated into Greek. What most likely began with the Torah (original LXX: 5 Books of Moses) continued over 200 years. During this period of time additional scrolls were written in Hebrew (e.g. Books of Maccabees, Jesus Sirach, Judith, Tobith) and then translated. Some may have ...

There can be different answers to this question because some Christian denominations base their canon off of the Septuagint while several Asian (Middle East and India) Christian denominations base theirs off of the Aramaic Peshitta Tanakh (Aramaic Peshitta Old Testament) which was used from 1st century AD. Like the Septuagint, the Peshitta Tanakh has books ...