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Aquila, of Pontus (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Aquila, of Pontus
Used for/see from:
  • Akilas, active 2nd century
  • Aquila, Ponticus, active 2nd century
  • Ponticus, Aquila, active 2nd century
  • Aquila, of Sinope, active 2nd century

LC database, December 3, 1996 (hdg.: Aquila, of Pontus; usage: Aquila)

New Catholic encyclopedia: volume 2, page 429 (under Bible, IV (Texts and versions): Aquila; Jewish proselyte from Pontus, reviser of the Septuagint Greek Old Testament, said to have flourished under the Emperor Hadrian; his work would thus have reached its final form in the years 132 to 135; he is known to Talmudic tradition as Onkelos; Aquila's version was included by Origen in his Hexapla)

Encyclopedia Britannica (Aquila; also called Akilas; flourished 2nd century)

Encyclopedia Americana (Aquila of Pontus, known as Aquila Ponticus; 2nd century convert to Christianity; known for a translation of the Old Testament into Greek)

Wikipedia, viewed November 21, 2019 (Aquila of Sinope; Aquila; he was from Sinope (modern-day Sinop, in Turkey); Aquila Ponticus; translator of the Old Testament into Greek, a proselyte, and disciple of Rabbi Akiva; opinions differ on whether he was the same person as Onkelos, who composed the leading Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch)

Barthelemy, Dominique. Les devanciers d'Aquila, 1963: title page (Aquila) page ix (Origen, in his Hexapla, juxtaposed the Septuagint with versions attributed to Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion) page 15 (le prosélyte Aquila)

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