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Your own link refutes your claim. While the Torah (the first five books) of the Old Testament were the first to be translated into Greek during the 3rd century BC., the other Old Testament books were then translated over the next two or three centuries.
''Further books were translated over the next two to three centuries. It is not altogether clear which was translated when, or where; some may even have been translated twice, into different versions, and then revised.''
And yes, I said 'Old Testament.' Not 'Tanach.' The Tanach is simply what the Jews have chosen to call the Masoretic text which was compiled by Jewish Masorete scribes between the 6th and 10th centuries AD from older existing Hebrew texts which had varied readings and which the Masoretes standardized as the Masoretic text. In some instances the Masorectic text is nearly identical with the Dead Sea Scrolls, while in other instances it is not.
Sometimes the Dead Sea Scrolls agree with the Masorectic text against the Septuagint. At other times the Dead Sea Scrolls agree with the Septuagint against the Masorectic text. In yet other instances the Dead Sea Scrolls don't agree with either the Septuagint or with the Masorectic texts meaning that there were other Hebrew texts in existance at that time.
What Jews call the Tanach is not the original Hebrew Bible and is an edited text. This is not to say that the Tanach isn't a pretty good text, just that it is not the original Hebrew Bible and it varies at times from both the Dead Sea Scrolls and from the Septuagint, both of which are much older than the Tanach or Masoretic text.
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