The Septuagint: Why the Greek Old Testament Matters

Beginning in the third century BC, Jewish translators in Alexandria rendered the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek. The result, the Septuagint, became the Bible of the early church — most Old Testament quotations in the New Testament follow its wording.

This article will recount the translation’s origins and the legends that grew around it, where it differs from the Hebrew text, and why it remains indispensable for textual criticism today. (Placeholder article — full research to come.)