Gottesschau–Gotteserkenntnis is the print version of the Third International Conference on the Theology of the Septuagint (March 9–11, 2016) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Author and editor Evangelia Dafni notes that it is the first conference dedicated to this theme. Appropriately, the book is the beginning of a new subseries of WUNT: Studies on the Theology of the Septuagint. The volume consists of fourteen essays by a diverse group of leading scholars from a wide array of research backgrounds (e.g., Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, New Testament, Hellenistic Judaism, classics, patristics, philosophy, etc.).
Emanuel Tov kicks off with a text-critical study of Moses’s six ascents to Mt. Sinai in Exod 19, 24, 32, and 34. Analyzing the MT, SP, 4QRPb (4Q364), and the LXX, he concludes that rather than copyist errors, the changes in these texts are mostly due to editorial harmonizing, especially in the latter. The tendency to create...
