The book contains a preface by the Three (editors) and has five
sections—all befitting the recipient of this Festschrift with her
interest in Septuagint and Textual Criticism. The first part of the
book, entitled The Septuagint. Origins and Translations contains
articles on what a translator is and does (such as the contribution from
Benjamin G. Wright and Joachim Schaper) or how LXXGenesis functions as
the first translation of Scripture (Emanuel Tov) and contains numerous
articles on idioms and accuracy (John A.L. Lee), on lexical variation
(Arie van der Kooij) and on renderings of nouns (Bénédicte Lemmelijn),
verbs (Anssi Voitila), tenses (Raimund Wirth), semi-prepositions (Raija
Sollamo), particles (Michael N. van der Meer) or lexical expressions and
themes such as the “end of times” (Staffan Olofsson) or `labouring women
(Takamitsu Muraoka), etc. In the second part, entitled The Septuagint
and the Versions. Textual Criticism and Text History, the books that are
focused on are Samuel and Kings (with contributions by Jan Joosten,
Philippe Hugo, Zipora Talshir, Siegfried Kreuzer, Andrés Piquer Otero,
Pablo Torijano Morales, Juha Pakkala, Christian Seppanen) and Joshua
(with contributions by Seppo Sipilä and Julio Trebolle Barrera). Then,
there are also studies on textual issues and text history of Isaiah
(Anna Kharanauli), Ezechiel (Johan Lust), Job (Claude Cox), Ecclesiastes
(Peter J. Gentry) and Minor Prophets (Hans Ausloos). The third part of
this volume is entitled The Septuagint in New Testament and Christian
Use and contains two contributions on textual links between LXX and the
New Testament (contributions by Tuukka Kauhanen and Georg A. Walser) and
patristic texts (contributions by Reinhart Ceulemans and Katrin
Hauspie). A fourth part of the volume is devoted to The Septuagint in
Jewish Tradition (with contributions on how the Tabernacle Account was
received in Hellenistic Judaism by Alison Salvesen and `Seeking “the
Septuagint” in a Scroll Dependent World' by Robert A. Kraft). The final
part of the volume is dedicated to The Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea
Scrolls. It opens with an attempt by Martti Nissinen to answer the
question: `Since when do Prophets Write?’ Then, there is the
contribution by George J. Brooke who offers a variant on the issue of
variant editions, albeit from the perspective of the scrolls. Eugene
Ulrich explores the fine balance between intentional variants and
isolated insertions in 4QSama and the MT. Sarianna Metso offers an
article on the Leviticus traditions at Qumran and Jutta Jokiranta offers
a reflection on `the stranger’ in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea. The
contribution by Hanne von Weissenberg forms a nice inclusion with the
opening contribution by Benjamin G. Wright as it too focuses on
Authority.