The extent to which rabbinic caution in this area is shared and anticipated in the ancient biblical versions was brought out especially by A. Geiger, and emphasis on it can aid depiction of ancient Jewish monotheism as characteristically rigorous and ‘exclusive’. The point being stressed at present is a complementary one, which Geiger also noted on occasion: the extent to which the LXX and the earlier versions, together with Jewish writers of the Herodian age as cited above, still perpetuate that