Septuagint vs Hebrew Bible: The Old Testament You Thought You Knew

What if the Old Testament you grew up reading isn’t as fixed as you think?

In this episode, we dive into the real evidence behind the Septuagint (LXX), the Masoretic Text (MT), and the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS)—and what they reveal about the state of Scripture in the first century.

From Goliath’s height to the missing verses of Esther, from Genesis chronologies to Stephen’s speech in Acts of the Apostles, we uncover a world where multiple textual traditions existed side by side—and sometimes disagreed.

Was the Septuagint just a translation… or does it preserve an older form of the Hebrew text?

Did the New Testament authors rely on a different Bible than the one we use today?

And what do the Dead Sea Scrolls actually prove?

This episode challenges the assumption that the Old Testament was ever a single, settled text—and shows why that matters for how we understand Scripture today.

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