From the NETS perspective, then, the Septuagint was in fact intentionally produced as “a Greek translation which aimed at bringing the Greek reader to the Hebrew original rather than bringing the Hebrew original to the Greek reader” (Pietersma and Wright 2009: xiv). This function is taken to underlie or otherwise characterize the production of the Septuagint and to constitute the fundamental impetus for its “linguistic strangeness” as Greek (Pietersma and Wright 2009: xv). Any literary features in