The Early Church's Bible Was NOT What You Think!

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00:00 Destroying Septuagint Myths with Dr. John Meade
03:00 Myth #1: The Septuagint Originally Referred to the Entire Old Testament
07:48 Myth #2: We Should Stop Using the Word “Septuagint”
11:22 Myth #3 The Septuagint was "One Thing" in the 1st Century
16:09 Myth #4: The Old Greek Stayed the Same Until Christians Used It
20:08 Myth #5: The Apostles ONLY used the Septuagint
28:35 Myth #6: The Apostles Never Quoted the Septuagint.
28:50 Myth #7: Our Septuagint Manuscripts Our Hopeless Corrupt
31:49 Myth #8: Early Christian Scribes Produced the Septuagint
32:53 Myth #9: Christians Ruined the Septuagint
45:06 Myth #10: Origen Created the Septuagint

Helpful articles by Dr. Meade:

Hexapla: https://textandcanon.org/the-first-pa...
Jewish Revisers: https://textandcanon.org/the-legacy-o...
Canon: https://textandcanon.org/why-the-cath...

This deep-dive conversation with Dr. John Meade explores what the Septuagint actually was—and wasn’t—during the time of Jesus and the early church. Dr. Meade dismantles common myths, explaining that the “Septuagint” originally referred only to the Greek Pentateuch, while the rest of the Old Testament was translated at different times, by different people, with multiple revisions already circulating before the first century. He shows how Jewish scribes, not Christians, produced and revised these translations, how the apostles drew from a plurality of Greek textual traditions rather than a single authoritative version, and why manuscripts like Vaticanus and Sinaiticus still reliably preserve the early Greek text despite minor Christian interpolations. The conversation culminates with Origen’s massive Hexapla project, which did not create the Septuagint but revealed the complexity of the Old Testament text as it existed in his day. This interview clears away misconceptions and gives viewers a clearer window into the Bible used by Jesus, the apostles, and the early church.
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