Collected Studies on the Septuagint

Born 1959; Regius Professor of Hebrew, University of Oxford; Student of Christ Church.

• ForewordTranslation Technique:Elaborate Similes - Hebrew and Greek - A Septuagintal Translation Technique in the Minor Prophets: The Elimination of Verbal RepetitionsThe Translators' Knowledge of Hebrew:On the LXX Translators' Knowledge of Hebrew - The Knowledge and Practice of Hebrew in the Hellenistic Period. Qumran and the Septuagint - On Aramaizing Renderings in the Septuagint - Biblical Hebrew as Mirrored in the Septuagint - Source-Language Oriented Remarks on the Lexicography of the Greek Versions of the Bible - "benevolence", and ἔλεος "pity". Reflections on their Lexical Equivalence in the Septuagint - The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint in Mutual IlluminationInterpretation:Exegesis in the Septuagint Versions of Hosea - The Impact of the Septuagint Pentateuch on the Greek Psalms - To See God. Conflicting Exegetical Tendencies in the Septuagint - Divine Omniscience and the Theology of the SeptuagintHistorical Milieu:Language as a Symptom. Linguistical Clues to the Social Background of the Seventy - The Original Language and Historical Milieu of the Book of Judith - The Septuagint as a Source of Information on Egyptian Aramaic in the Hellenistic Period - Reflections on the "Interlinear Paradigm" in Septuagintal Studies