I just heard that the #Bible is the first book ever to have been translated from its original language into another language, as far as we know. This was from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek, called the Septuagint (abbreviated as the LXX).
Does anybody know different? #asknostr
Check the Epic of Gilgamesh. One of the few antecedents.
Yeah, I know that other texts had been translated before it, but I'm not sure they would qualify as a "book".
Agreed. First book? Yeah, I could see it. Hebrew Bible/OT for sure. Took till 397AD to canonize the New Testament, but all books were in use prior to that, possibly forming around 300AD.
The real mind-bender to me is that the Church survived for 200-300 years prior to this. An Eastern Orthodox priest clued me into this.
