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'''Neophytos Vamvas / Νεόφυτος Βάμβας''' (1770-1856) was a Greek scholar.
[[File:Neophytos Vamvas.jpg|thumb|250px|Neophytos Vamvas]]


==Biography==
'''Neophytos Vamvas / Νεόφυτος Βάμβας''' (1770-1856) was a Greek scholar and Orthodox cleric. Born on the island of Chios [Greece], in 1804 he went to study in France. Back in Greece he taught in Chios, Corfu, Syros, and finally in the newly-founded University of Athens. In the 1830s Vamvas led a team of translators who authored the first complete translation of the Bible in Modern Greek.  
 
Neophytos Vamvas was born on the island of Chios [Greece] in 1770. A Greek Orthodox cleric, in 1804 he went to study in France. Back in Greece he taught in Chios, Corfu, Syros, and finally in the newly-founded University of Athens. In the 1830s Vamvas led a team of translators who authored the first complete translation of the Bible in Modern Greek. Vamvas died in Athens [Greece] in 1856.


==Works on Second Temple Judaism==
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*[[Tes Palaias Diathekes hapanta (1840 Vamvas), book]]
*[[Tes Palaias Diathekes hapanta (1840 Vamvas), book]]


==External links==
==Biography==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophytus_Vamvas Wikipedia]
 
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Neophytos Vamvas

Neophytos Vamvas / Νεόφυτος Βάμβας (1770-1856) was a Greek scholar and Orthodox cleric. Born on the island of Chios [Greece], in 1804 he went to study in France. Back in Greece he taught in Chios, Corfu, Syros, and finally in the newly-founded University of Athens. In the 1830s Vamvas led a team of translators who authored the first complete translation of the Bible in Modern Greek.

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Biography