Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek"

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Catholics include some Jewish Apocrypha, those Scriptures without Hebrew originals (and several most likely composed in Greek anyway), while Protestants reject them. What the Septuagint was and is, and how the Greek Bible changed to become a Hebrew and Greek Bible, is the story that Timothy Michael Law tells. Thereafter, other Hebrew Scriptures are rendered into Greek, though exactly when and why remains uncertain. Anneli Aejmelaeus, for one, maintains that the received Hebrew Bible and the LXX share a common theological vision. Paul draws on the LXX, not the Hebrew Bible, which he was perfectly capable of doing.

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