Which Old Testament?

[Jar1979]

Did the early church use a Greek version for the Old Testament as their regular text? Please, I don't want this to degenerate into a fight about whether there was a formailzed Septuagint or not. What I'm after is did the early church regularly read the OT in Greek or Hebrew?

 

[Phil D.]

Most scholars I've read say that the Septuagint was used. This is reflected in the fact that most citations of the OT by NT writers is from a Greek version. It seems likely they would have referenced a source familiar to their immediate readership.