In Jerome's influential Latin Vulgate translation of the Book of Judith, which dates to ca. 400 AD, only about half of the text accords with the earlier Greek translation known as the Septuagint. Lange's study employs exegetical methods as well as methods native to the cognitive sciences to analyze the textual figures and uncover these discrepancies, which she then explicates in context of the political and social history of the time.

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Lydia Lange, University of Würzburg, Germany.