While the Septuagint was a collection of the books
of the
Old Testament and an attempt at a canon, it was not a fixed
canon in the first century. It was a popular translation of
scripture because Greek was the common language of
the
entire Mediterranean world by the time of the
Apostolic Church.
It is not surprising that this is the translation--and canon--used
by Christ and the New Testament writers: 300 of
350
quotations from the Old Testament in the New
Testament
are from the Septuagint. The remainder are often
paraphrases of either the Hebrew or the Greek only.
