The articles in this volume deal with the Septuagint in its entire diversity and development. Using selected examples, mainly from the Psalms and the Prophets, they show that the translators tried to preserve the meaning of their Hebrew source text while trying to focus on new content.

Ever since the era of humanism, biblical exegetes have consistently drawn on the Greek Bible text of the Septuagint when the Hebrew texts proved to be difficult or even puzzling, and they attempted to improve these at least selectively with the help of the Greek text version. In the past 30 years, this text-critical research on the Bible text has increasingly moved away from the procedure. In fact the text of the Septuagint, in its entire diversity and development, is regarded as a witness to the textual history of the Old Testament which deserves its own consideration. The articles in this volume deal with this issue. Using selected examples, mainly from the Psalms and the Prophets, they show that the translators tried to preserve the meaning of their Hebrew source text while trying to focus on new content.

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Born 1958; 1988 Dr. phil., University of Mainz; 1993 Dr. theol., Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt am Main; 2000 Habilitation, University of Strasbourg; since 2023 Professor emeritus of Biblical Studies, University of Strasbourg, and Affiliated Researcher, Fondazione per le Scienze religiose, Bologna, Italy.