


The canon produced by these seventy scribes has in their honor come to be known as the Septuagint after septuagintus, the Latin word for “seventy.” This canon was formed by seventy Jewish scribes at the request of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who desired to have a standardized collection of Judaism’s Sacred Books translated into Greek for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria. The deuterocanonical books are included in the famous Alexandrian Canon, a Greek version of the Agano la Kale produced between 250 na 100 B.C. Hata hivyo, beginning with the Council of Rome in 382 A.D., which convened under the authority of Pope Saint Damasus I, the Catholic Church has accepted the validity and worthiness of these books, while other Christian communities have and do not. These books, called the deuterocanonical ( or “second canon”) books because their status was contested for a time. Generally, Catholics and other Christians tend to agree on the books to include in the New Testament, but they debate the authenticity of seven books in the Agano la Kale that Catholics include. Ni wazi, bibles differ due to translations, but there is a more fundamental difference, pia, and that involves the composition of the bible, particularly the accepted books in the Old Testament.
