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From Prophecy to Testament: The Function of the Old Testament in the New is unavailable, but you can change that!

The theology of the New Testament is indebted to—and a reflection of—major Old Testament themes, images, and language, because the New Testament authors wrote in the context of the Old Testament and the rich Jewish tradition of the study and interpretation of Scripture. A group of ancient Jewish writers provided the Christian church with its Old Testament Greek text (the Septuagint) and provided...

Greek. Beginning in the third century B.C.E. and probably beginning with the books of Moses, the Hebrew and Aramaic Scriptures were translated into Greek. Much of this translation was probably done in Egypt, especially Alexandria, but some of it may have taken place in other locations, including Israel itself. By the first century C.E. the Law and the Prophets were probably widely circulated in Greek. The NT writers quoted the Greek version more often than any other version. Not surprisingly, the
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