The present volume rounds off the trilogy of conference contributions on the theology of the Septuagint. Its aim is to give experts free rein to express themselves on the "past - present - future" triptych of the Septuagint.

Autorentext
Born 1969; Professor for Old Testament - Septuagint at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Inhalt
Natural and Moral Evil
Christoph Elsas: Iranian and Greek dualistic concepts of physical and moral Evil. Towards the religious historical background of the Septuagint-Theology - Evangelia G. Dafni: Das Böse und Gottes Gerechtigkeit im Alten Testament und in Euripides Hippolytos . Zur Klärung des kulturellen und sprachtheologischen Hintergrunds der Septuaginta - Mario Cimosa: Philo of Alexandria: His exegesis of some aspects of sin and evil in the Septuagint version of the Book of Genesis - Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: Sin and evil according to Philo of Alexandria. Some traces of his exegesis in Genesis in some Christian authors

Law and Justice
Arie van der Kooij: Law and righteousness in LXX Isaiah and other writings of the time - Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros: , . Introducing textual variant readings, contextual settings and translation techniques concerning justice-oriented terms in LXX-Isaiah - Martin Rösel: Das Gesetz bei den Propheten. Zur Übersetzung der Gesetzesterminologie im griechischen Dodekapropheton - Christoph Elsas: Septuagint's understanding of Purim within the history of religion, law, and justice - Peter Nagel: The concept in the "additions" to the Esther narrative - is there justice for Asthi and Esther? - Mario Cimosa: Lex et religio in the Book of Job according to the Greek text - Gert J. Steyn: Loving your neighbour (Lev 19:18) as a "royal law according to scripture..." (Jas 2:8) - Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: The relationship between law and justice - Constantine A. Bozinis: Greek justice

Jerusalem and Babylon
Gillian Mary Clare Bonney: Babylon and Jerusalem, Destruction or Resurrection. The idea of Babylon and Jerusalem in the interpretation of Saint Irenaeus in Adversus haereses V, 25ff. - Martin Meiser: Exodus 22:27[28]LXX in Ancient Jewish and Christian literature - Kyle Young: Coping with code-switching between Jerusalem and Babylon: Hebrew and Aramaic in OG and Theodotian Daniel and 1 Esdras, and 2 Esdras - Helen Efthimiadis-Keith: Theologising rape. The rape of Dinah / Jerusalem and Holofernes / 'Assyria' in Judith's Prayer - Kristin De Troyer: How a story from Susa was interpreted in the Greek world - Arie van der Kooij: Jerusalem and Babylon in the Old Greek of Isaiah - Nicholas A. E. Kalospyros: The negative town. Semasiological wordplays and wordings towards the theological polarity of Babylon in LXX Isaiah 13 and 14 - Gideon R. Kotzé: The Lord's positively hostile actions against Jerusalem in LXX Lamentations 2:5 - Jaco Gericke: Jerusalem (Alexandria) and Babylon (Athens). and ancient "philosophical theology" - Evangelia G. Dafni: LXX-Jesaja 25,8, LXX-Jeremia 28(51),34.44 und ihr ugaritischer Hintergrund (KTU2 1.5 I 5f.=32-35). Osmose- oder Diffusionsprozesse im Alten Orient und Alten Testament?