A small correction....if you please?
The Septuagint was commissioned by Ptolemy and seventy "Alexandrian" Jews took on the task of translating Hebrew to Greek. This Hellenistic influence on Judaism was not divinely inspired and even the Apostle Paul was later threatened by it [Acts 9:29].
The "Deuts" were never written in Hebrew and were simply inserted into scripture by these "Grecian Jews". The Council of Jamnia was composed of Hebrew scholars and restored the canon to what had been established by Ezra and Nehemiah after the return from Babylon.
The Apostle Paul....being an Attorney and scholar under the tutorship of Gamaliel [Acts 22:3] would never have used a Greek translation. Gamaliel [Acts 5:34] was the Grandson of the famous Hebrew scholar, Hillel.....and a Pharisee.
When Paul asks Timothy to bring his scrolls and parchments [II Timothy 4:13] they would not have included a copy of the Grecian Septuagint.
You may be right on your first point. I will check.
Nonetheless, do you think the Sacred Scriptures could have been accessed, or made available to the translators, who painstakingly translated them by hand, without the permission of the Jewish priests, who guarded the scriptures closely?
“Church History,” by Fr. John Laux, MA, discusses the “Jews of the Dispersion, and especially those of Alexandria, and how “most of them adopted the Greek language and read their Sacred Books in a Greek translation (called the Septuagint).”
“Unlike their co-religionists in Palestine, the Jews of the Dispersion mingled freely with their pagan neighbors.” (p.4)
As for your point about St. Paul it is really irrelevant.
The scriptures were separate, and not compiled as a canon, until St.Jerome compiled them in the early 4th c.
(I am sure someone here has exact dates??)
I do not know how Paul felt about the Greek translation after his conversion. I suspect he would have spit on it before his conversion.
The “Hellenistic influence on Judaism” may not have been inspired, but perhaps God allowed the Jews to mingle with the pagans for the benefit of bringing the Scriptures to the pagans, and not for the benefit of the Jews.
At the Council of Jamnia, after the Crucifixion of Christ, the Council came up with new criteria for identifying inspired books to be included in the Canon.
They were not living in a vacuum.
They had just been visited by the Son of God, and He fulfilled some of the OT prophecies.
what are you talking about? Paul took sides with the Greek Christians time and time again against Judiazing Christians.
Further, St. Paul said this:
14 But continue thou in those things which thou hast learned, and which have been committed to thee: knowing of whom thou hast learned them; 15 And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures, which can instruct thee to salvation, by the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture, inspired of God, is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in justice, 17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.We know that Timothy was a hellenized uncircumsized half-Jew (Acts 16). The Holy Scriptures Timothy learned "from his infancy" was decidedly the Septuagint. That would be "all scripture, inspired of God", according to Apostle St. Paul.(2 Timothy 3)
Protestantism is, quite literally, counterscriptural fraud.