<P> Seventy - two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek , for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria . </P>
<P> Seventy - two Jewish scholars were asked by the Greek King of Egypt Ptolemy II Philadelphus to translate the Torah from Biblical Hebrew into Greek , for inclusion in the Library of Alexandria . </P>
who ordered the translation of the old testament into greek
who ordered the translation of the old testament into greek
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Ptolemy II Philadelphus