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 (Benedicte 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, Andres Piquer Otero,

Pablo Torijano Morales, Juha Pakkala, Christian Seppanen) and Joshua

(with contributions by Seppo Sipila 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.