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How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish Scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures between the third century BC and the second century AD, played a central role...

Septuagint that has appeared especially in the last couple of decades from the fields of Jewish studies, biblical studies, and early Christian studies and more particularly from the small field of Septuagint studies. This book contains my own insights and original ideas at many points, but I have also attempted to take what is already known and to explain it more clearly to those who are interested in the history of the Bible and in its use in the early centuries of the Christian Church but who may
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