references to variants of the later revisions and reworking of the text are virtually completely absent. Thus, the revision of Rahlfs’s Psalm edition in the Göttingen Septuagint is an urgent desideratum. Second, the Septuagint is seen as a ‘mere’ (and thus second-class) ‘translation’, of interest to only a few specialists of the intertestamental period—although particularly in its latest writings it shows that the ‘Old Testament’ lasted into the first century AD, that is, until the time of Jesus