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Symmachus’s revision is usually dated to the end of the second century or the beginning of the third century CE. His background and religious affiliation is unclear. According to Epiphanius, Symmachus was a Samaritan who had become a proselyte. Eusebius and Jerome state that he belonged to the Jewish-Christian Ebionite sect. Some scholars think that Symmachus was Jewish, while others identify him with Somchos, a disciple of R. Meir, mentioned in b. Er 13b.

Symmachus was very precise (his revision, like Aquila’s, was based on kaige-Theodotion), but, he also very often translated according to the context rather than representing the Hebrew words with fixed equivalents or stereotyped renderings.