What significant achievement made under the Ptolemies aided both Jews of the Dispersion and writers of the New Testament?
a) A great research library was founded in which the chief literary treasures of antiquity were preserved.
b) Alexandria became an outstanding center of commerce and education.
c) Jewish Scriptures were translated into Greek, and the finished work was called the Septuagint.
d) The wars between the Seleucidae of Syria and the Ptolemies of Egypt so weakened both kingdoms that Israel was able to gain her independence.