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The First Bible of the Church is Mogens Müller’s research into the shape of the Hebrew Bible at the time of the New Testament, with a special focus on the significance of the Greek translation, the Septuagint. He argues that the Septuagint and its reception in the early Church should give it a level of authority on par with the Hebrew Bible. This fact is especially important because the...

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION 1. The Jewish Bible—The Christian Bible When we refer to the Christian Bible we invariably think of both the Old and the New Testament. Also, when we refer to the original text of the Old Testament, we assume as a matter of course that this is to be found in the Hebrew Bible, Biblia Hebraica. However, it is a historical fact that, for about a hundred years of its earliest history, the Christian Church shared its Bible with Judaism. Not until the middle of the second century
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