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A Companion to Biblical Interpretation in Early Judaism presents 18 commissioned articles on biblical exegesis in early Judaism, covering the period after the Hebrew Bible was written and before the beginning of rabbinic Judaism. The essays, all written by experts in the field, are arranged in seven categories: Hebrew Bible, rewritten Bible, Qumran literature, apocalyptic literature and...

The exegesis of Ps 9:21 and the five questions to classify elements of scriptural interpretation in the LXX are based on the assumption that most of the translators wanted to produce a text that could be read and understood independently of its Hebrew Vorlage. Obviously they were aware that they were translating and thereby producing a canonical text.20 Moreover, they were also willing—although to a different extent—to correct obvious mistakes,
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