As the first semblance of a Hebrew canon is collected, the language was dying such that it was considered dead by 135 AD. It was dying sufficiently by the time of Christ that Jesus and his contemporaries used Aramaic, a Semitic  language which had replaced Hebrew as the common language of the Jewish people.
The term Septuagint, Latin for the number 70 (LXX), may
represent the number of translators. The term stands for not
only the Pentateuch in Greek,
                                
Bible: Leviticus. Egypt, late 2nd century. The oldest manuscript of Septuagint
but the entire body of Hebrew
scripture translations and compositions dating from
possibly before 300 BC.