What Is the Septuagint?
The Septuagint is supposedly a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible that was completed before the time of Christ. The academic establishment largely insists that Jesus, and especially the apostles, quoted from this established Greek translation and preferred it over the Hebrew Bible. This narrative has been repeated over and over, to the point that challenging it seems like a lost cause. Many Catholics depend on this myth since the Septuagint includes the so-called “deuterocanonical books” of the Bible—the Apocrypha. The idea is that if the apostles quoted from the Septuagint, then they must have approved all the extra books as well. But nothing could be farther from the truth.
