Who here is Jewish?

[Sethomas]

Actually, Kahl, I said recently in another thread that the LXX is the edition used for OT citations in the New Testament. The New Testament was written in various qualities of Koine Greek, but they always cited the Hellenistic Greek of the LXX. This is significant because it's the crux of the argument over whether or not Christians should regard the deuterocanonical books (also derisively called The Apocrypha, which can refer to a larger corpus of works as well) as part of the Bible, put them in a separate place in the Bible for "historical reference", or omit them entirely.

At the Council of Jerusalem, as I think it was called, in like the AD 90s or so the Israeli Jews decided that those books whose authorship was in Greek rather than Hebrew should be excluded from their canon. As I said, this was mostly for poltical and social reasons--they wanted to denegrate the Jews living in Alexandria as being inferior to those in Palestine. The odd thing is, though, that most of the books in question do have contemporaneous Hebrew translations and especially Maccabees I & II speak intimately of Jewish history within the Holy Land.

At any rate, Martin Luther didn't hesitate to throw them out because of their interference with his views, and virtually all Protestants followed suit.