Seminary class

Last night I attended my second seminary class. I'm taking BT308(The New Testament Use of the Old Testament) through Providence Theological Seminary which meets at FRAC. So far it has been exceptional. One thing we discussed last night I thought was interesting is the linguistic forms of the OT existing during the first century. I had heard of these but really didn't know much about them. They are:

1) The Masoretic Text
-Written in Hebrew
-NASB is mainly related to the MT
-Matthew used often
-Earliest of all three

2) The Septuangint
-Written in Greek
-Most of the NT authors used the Septuangint
-250-275 BC

3) The Targums
-Oral translations of the Hebrew Bible
-Also includes non-biblical notes