c. 268–232 BC Emperor Ashoka's moral rock and pillar edicts contemporaneous with the Septuagint translation
The grand pan-Indian empire ruled by Emperor Ashoka the Great, who unified the Indian subcontinent, converted to Buddhism following the bloody Kalinga War, and carved moral edicts on monumental stone pillars promoting non-violence, religious tolerance, and moral dharma.
Rigorous 4-part empirical analysis separating ancient text from bias and consensus
Major Rock Edict XIII carved in Brahmi, Greek, and Aramaic explicitly names Greek Hellenistic kings: 'Conquest by Dharma has been won here on the borders... even six hundred yojanas away, where the Greek king named Antiochus (Antiochus II of Syria) rules, and beyond him Ptolemy (Ptolemy II of Egypt), Antigonus, Magas, and Alexander.'
Physical proof of active diplomatic, cultural, and linguistic contact connecting India, Persia, Hellenistic Syria, and Ptolemaic Egypt during the exact decades when the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek in Alexandria.
Bilingual Greek and Aramaic edicts discovered at Kandahar, Afghanistan, prove that Aramaic (the language of Post-Exilic Israel) functioned as an official diplomatic lingua franca all the way to ancient India.
Imperial moral declarations professing royal remorse for past military bloodshed and urging universal ethical conduct.