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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...

in a cave associated with the doomed revolt against the Romans in 132–35 CE of the Jewish leader, Simon Bar Kokhba. That Greek, as well as Hebrew and Aramaic, was a medium of communication even for ultra-nationalist Jews is reinforced by the discovery of despatches written in Greek by Bar Kokhba himself (Porter 2000a: 58–9; Yadin et al. 2002: 49–63). (2) From Egypt. Important early papyrus witnesses to the LXX, in the geographical area where much of the translating is thought to have taken place,
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