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