Good(original) question!
First of all, the Septuagint, though written by Jews was actually written in Greek as it the official language of the time, about 250 BC, when they documented the first 5 books of the Old Testament. See From
students.cua.edu/16kalvesmaki/lxx/ . During the years until the birth of Christ there would be more books added to the Septuagint. These books of the OT are substantiated with the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in 1947 that are believed to be written somewhere between 60-100 BC. There you find a Septuagint of that time with the additional noncanonical books(the entire inspired-OT and NT- canon would not become official until the late 4th century). Therefore we begin to catch a glimpse of the Apostolic Old Testament the Scriptures used by the Apostles and Christ… they were all from the Septuagint. Here we begin to understand why the Catholic Canon is a more genuine and complete Old Testament-Jewish or Hebrew Canon as Hanukkah is not found in the modern Hebrew Scriptures, but IS found in the books of Maccabees of the Catholic Bible.
Hence we get to the present Hebrew Canon(equivalent to the Protestant Old Testament canon)and the elimination of 7 books of the Catholic Canon. (review the history of the bible from this Protestant site:
literatureclassics.com/ancientpaths/bibhist.html )
Here, dates are of utmost importance. As Christians we understand that Jesus established his Church in the year
33 AD through Peter and the Apostles, making promises to His Church and giving it the authority to bind and loosen on earth (Mt 16:16-19, Mt 18:17, John 14:16-18). Paul reiterates this when he tells us it is the Church which is the pillar and foundation of truth.(1 Tim 3:15) With that in mind, Christians should understand that any Post-Christ, Hebrew canon devised in ** 90-128 AD** by Christ rejecting Pharisees with the sole purpose of distracting Jew from the reality that Jesus was the Mesiah simply had no authority to remove books from scripture.
In
1534, Matin Luther decides to remove 7 books from the bible by accepting the Hebrew Canon as Canonical Christian OT Scripture(He also wanted to remove several other books including James and Revelation- as they were too Catholic- ). Interestingly the Protestant author of the above link admits this was Luther’s making: " In translating the Old Testament, Luther
excluded the Apocrypha
from the canon." Thus, we have Martin Luther changing Christian biblical canon after the Church had already exercised its authority to give provide us the complete Bible in the years
393 and 397 AD(Catholic Synods of Hippo and Carthage) , over 1100 years before Luther. Accepting a self authorizing canon, orchestrated originally by Christ rejecting Jew at least 57 years
AFTER Christ had established His Church. Unfortunately, most Protestants and Catholics are not aware of this historical travesty.
Regarding the King James Version I believe it was translated by scholars from the original languages I believe. Additionally , the original KJV, though written in Protestant Bible format still included the Apocrypha- including all the 7 Catholic Deutercanonical books plus other truly Apocryphal books. Yet , modern KJV bibles have completely excluded all these books.
another important link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint , under the heading “Christian Use"
