This impressive new volume edited by Salvesen and Law finds its place alongside several other resources of a similar kind meant to orient students and scholars to the various topics related to the study of the Septuagint, the tradition of ancient Jewish Greek translations of the Hebrew Bible alongside other deuterocanonical compositions. Septuagint studies has been thriving as a scholarly discipline for fifty years now. Yet there remains a considerable amount of work to do even in producing editions of the primary texts themselves. Though the field has benefitted from several excellent introductions produced over the last few decades, it has not been until the last several years that resources such as this Handbook have begun to appear. Like the others mentioned in more detail below, this volume is a welcome addition.
In the introduction, Salvesen points out the far-reaching influence and importance of the LXX within biblical studies, touching...
