The Oxford handbook of the Septuagint / edited by Alison G. Salvesen and Timothy Michael Law.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Alison Salvesen -- PART I: FIRST THINGS -- What Is the Septuagint? / Cameron Boyd-Taylor -- The History of Septuagint Studies: Early Modern Western Europe / Scott Mandelbrote -- The History of Septuagint Studies: Editions of the Septuagint / Felix Albrecht -- PART II: THE CONTEXT OF THE SEPTUAGINT -- The Social and Historical Setting of the Septuagint: Palestine and the Diaspora / James K. Aitken -- The Social and Historical Setting of the Septuagint: Hellenistic and Roman Egypt / Livia Capponi -- The Nature of Septuagint Greek: Language and Lexicography / Trevor V. Evans -- Theology in the Septuagint? / Mogens Müller -- The Letter of Aristeas / Dries De Crom -- Manuscripts, Papyri, and Epigraphy: Papyri and Epigraphy Relating to the Septuagint / Michael P. Theophilos -- Manuscripts, Papyri, and Epigraphy: Manuscripts of the Septuagint from Uncials to Minuscules / Luciano Bossina -- Translation Technique / Hans Ausloos -- PART III: THE CORPUS OF THE SEPTUAGINT -- The Pentateuch / Dirk Büchner -- Joshua and Judges / Natalio Fernández Marcos -- The Books of Samuel / Anneli Aejmelaeus -- The Books of Kings / Tuukka Kauhanen, Andrés Piquer Otero, Timo Tekoniemi, and Pablo Torijano -- Chronicles/Paralipomena / Laurence Vianès -- Isaiah / Rodrigo F. de Sousa -- Jeremiah and Baruch / Matthieu Richelle -- Ezekiel / Katrin Hauspie -- Daniel, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon: Old Greek and Theodotion / Olivier Munnich -- The Twelve Minor Prophets / Cécile Dogniez -- Megillot (Ruth, Song of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther) / Robert J. V. Hiebert -- The Psalter / Staffan Olofsson -- Proverbs / Lorenzo Cuppi -- The Book of Job / Maria Gorea -- Deuterocanonical and Apocryphal Books / Alison Salvesen -- PART IV: THE SEPTUAGINT IN ITS JEWISH CONTEXT -- Philo and the Septuagint / Sarah J. K. Pearce -- Josephus and the Septuagint / Tessa Rajak -- The Scrolls from the Judean Desert and the Septuagint / Eugene Ulrich -- Kaige and 'Theodotion' / Siegfried Kreuzer -- Aquila / Giuseppe Veltri with Alison Salvesen -- Symmachus / Michaël N. van der Meer -- Quinta, Sexta, and Septima / Bradley John Marsh, Jr. -- The Samaritan Pentateuch in Greek / Bradley John Marsh, Jr. -- The Constantinople Pentateuch and Medieval Jewish Use of Greek Biblical Texts / Julia G. Krivoruchko -- PART V: THE SEPTUAGINT AS CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE -- Citations in the New Testament / David Lincicum -- The Proto-Lucianic and Antiochian Text / Tuukka Kauhanen -- Origen's Hexapla / Peter J. Gentry -- The Use of the Septuagint in the Liturgy and Lectionary of the Greek Orthodox Church / John A. L. Lee -- Reception of the Septuagint among Greek Christian Writers / Reinhart Ceulemans -- The Septuagint in the Latin World / Michael Graves -- PART VI: THE SEPTUAGINT IN TRANSLATION -- The Vetus Latina (Old Latin) / Pierre-Maurice Bogaert -- Armenian, Georgian, and Church Slavonic Versions / Pablo A. Torijano -- The Syrohexapla / Marketta Liljeström -- Coptic, Arabic, and Ethiopic Versions / Andrés Piquer Otero -- Modern Translations of the Septuagint / Eberhard Bons -- Textual Criticism / Bénédicte Lemmelijn -- New Testament / J. Ross Wagner -- Christian Theology / John Barton -- Illustrated Manuscripts of the Septuagint / Maja Kominko.

The Septuagint is the term commonly used to refer to the corpus of early Greek versions of Hebrew Scriptures. The collection is of immense importance in the history of both Judaism and Christianity. The renderings of individual books attest to the religious interests of the substantial Jewish population of Egypt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and to the development of the Greek language in its Koine phase. The narrative ascribing the Septuagint's origins to the work of seventy translators in Alexandria attained legendary status among both Jews and Christians. The Septuagint was the version of Scripture most familiar to the writers of the New Testament, and became the authoritative Old Testament of the Greek and Latin Churches. In the early centuries of Christianity it was itself translated into several other languages, and it has had a continuing influence on the style and content of biblical translations. The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint features contributions from leading experts in the field considering the history and manuscript transmission of the version, and the study of translation technique and textual criticism. The collection provides surveys of previous and current research on individual books of the Septuagint corpus, on alternative Jewish Greek versions, the Christian 'daughter' translations, and reception in early Jewish and Christian writers. The Handbook also includes several conversations with related fields of interest such as New Testament studies, liturgy, and art history. --