While the primary motivation for the Septuagint may well have been that many Jews had lost Hebrew and now spoke Greek as their primary language, it had the added benefit of making Jewish tradition, history, and law available to a non-Jewish audience, and of this Josephus and Philo and others were very proud. As Eric Gruen observes, Jews in many ways saw diaspora communities not as groups of victimized Jewish exiles but in terms more analogous to how the Romans viewed their colonies.
