characterized as moderately “literal” while showing sensitivity to Greek idiom. We know little about the Other Versions from antiquity. Strictly speaking, there is really no such thing as the Septuagint. This may seem like an odd statement in a book titled Invitation to the Septuagint, but unless readers appreciate the fluidity and ambiguity of the term, they will quickly become confused by the literature.1 One might think that the Septuagint is the Greek version of the Bible in