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Jennifer Dines provides a survey of current scholarship on the Greek Bible—the Septuagint. She outlines its origins in the third to first centuries BCE, going on to trace its subsequent history to the fifth century CE. The Septuagint’s relationship with the standard Hebrew text and its translational characteristics are examined, as is its value as a collection with its own literary and exegetical...

The colophon to LXX Esther yields a date before which the translation must have been made, as the book claims to have been brought to Egypt in ‘the fourth year of Ptolemy and Cleopatra’ (11.1); this could be either 114, or 78–77, or 48 BCE, depending on which reign is intended; there are, however, some doubts as to the authenticity of the colophon (see Reinhartz 2001: 643). 2. The prophetic books. For the moment, these are mostly assigned to the mid-second century BCE and later, largely from their
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