Septuagint ~250 BCEThe original texts. Historical revisionism argues the Greek Septuagint (70) predates the Hebrew version, on the grounds that meaning was lost moving between the two languages. (ref: Ammon Hillman).This in itself is not a bad thing when understanding that Biblical Hebrew was not designed to tell bible stories, but to capture and preserve a newly forming Pythagorean symbolic numerology within the Phoenician letters used to create the original Hebrew.It appears Ancient [Biblical] Hebrew resulted as an attempt to translate the Greek Septuagint.Where this sits. I used to make that case with a pair of numbers, and they were wrong: the 5,400 I quoted is the Greek New Testament, not the Septuagint, which carries 11,000 to 16,000 distinct words against the Hebrew Bible's 8,600. The argument is better made about the reservoir than the text. The Greek behind the Septuagint was vast — all attested Ancient Greek runs to some 250,000 dictionary entries — while the Hebrew Bible is very nearly the whole of surviving Hebrew literature from its period. What does not hold is that Biblical Hebrew went unspoken: the Siloam tunnel inscription, the Lachish letters and the Arad ostraca are military dispatches and ration lists scratched on potsherds, the residue of an everyday working language. And the gap in what survives is partly a matter of what the ground keeps.