The Question of the Greek New Testament

[Aractus]

Jesus and the Apostles all spoke Greek. It was the lingua franca of the Roman empire. Necessary for trade and all that. In fact, the Jews of the diaspora (those not living in Palestine) read the Greek Septuagint scriptures instead of the Hebrew scriptures.

There was no Greek Septuagint scriptures at the time of Jesus. What you call the Septuagint is just the fifth column of the Hexapla written in the 3rd century AD. As for being Scripture, even Jerome when he wrote the Vulgate made special mention of the fact that "the LXX" version of Daniel was so poorly translated that it had been rejected. So much for being a piece of sola scripture. Now there's not a single complete copy of this amazing "Greek Septuagint scripture" anywhere in the world - not one. The book of Daniel survives in just two manuscripts only one of which is actually complete. Daniel wasn't even the worst translation of "the LXX" - that was Isaiah. And the one complete copy of "the LXX" version of Daniel that has survived (MS 88) was written in the 9th century and says itself that it is a copy of the FIFTH COLUMN OF THE HEXAPLA. So good luck figuring out what you had before Origen got his hands on it and modified it.