f the Hebrew term Messiah, meaning the Anointed one, and the Gospel, from the Greek Evangel, translating the Hebrew word for Good News, was initially the information that the Messiah expected by the Jews had appeared (Schonfeld 12).
The order of books specified by the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, was used when those books were incorporated into the Christian canon as the Old Testament. The significance of the Septuagint is that it was the earliest and most complete translation of the Hebrew Bible that was used by Hellenistic Jews. According to Heeren, the Septuagint actually corrected the Massoretic text, which he says in the course of multiple generations of copying and interpretative notes had become corrupted. This made the Septuagint an important element of Old Testament development and study: "the manuscripts therefore which the Seventy had at their disposal, may in places have been better than the Massoretic manuscripts" (Heeren). This view has been increasingly adopted based on analysis of Septuagint and Hebrew texts foun
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