Discovering The Septuagint: The Bible Jesus Knew (Two Witnesses, One Truth Book 1)

Discovering The Septuagint examines the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, completed over a century before Christ. This translation was the Scripture used by Jesus, the apostles, and the early church, and is quoted throughout the New Testament. The book explores what the Septuagint is, how it differs from the Hebrew Bible, why Jewish scholars created it, how it became the Bible of the early church, and why Jesus and the apostles used it as their primary Scripture. It also covers the centuries-long divergence between Jewish and Christian textual traditions, and modern scholarly rediscovery of the text. Potter addresses major concerns about the Septuagint with direct responses. The book is written to be accessible while maintaining scholarly rigor and theological soundness. It presents how different textual traditions—the Masoretic Text and Septuagint—can complement rather than compete with each other. This is the first book in the "Two Witnesses, One Truth" series, which offers extended biblical studies exploring how these two textual traditions illuminate Scripture together.