Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translation technique. Elaborate similes, Hebrew and Greek : a study in Septuagint translation technique -- A Septuagintal translation technique in the Minor Prophets : the elimination of verbal repetitions -- The translators' knowledge of Hebrew. On the Septuagint 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 : the question of influence from spoken Hebrew -- Source-language oriented remarks on the lexicography of the Greek versions of the Bible -- [Ḥsd], "benevolence", and [eleos], "pity" : reflections on their lexical equivalence in the Septuagint -- The Dead Sea scrolls and the Septuagint in mutual illumination -- Interpretation. Exegesis in the Septuagint version 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 Septuagint -- Historical milieu. Language as symptom : linguistic 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.

In English, with some text in Greek and Hebrew.