comprehensive and reliable edition of the LXX nears completion, scholars have begun to realize that its textual base shows much greater affinity to the MT than was previously assumed. For one thing, the study of the translation technique employed in many books of the LXX has made clear that Greek renderings that used to be taken as evidence of a non-Masoretic Vorlage can in many cases be explained as reflecting a Hebrew text that is identical with the MT. This is one of the most significant conclusions