Judaism

International Septuagint Day 2026: A New Septuagint Seminar

Well yet another International Septuagint Day has arrived (and gone) as of yesterday, 8 February. It being a Sunday, I figured I would draw attention to it this morning instead. And as usual, I have something to say about it. First, here’s a list of links to previous years’ celebrations here on the blog:

ISD 2025ISD 2024ISD 2023ISD 2022
ISD 2021ISD 2020ISD 2019ISD 2017
ISD 2016ISD 2015ISD 2014

To celebrate this year, I want to draw attention to an exciting new venture at Oxford.

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New Publications: Part 2

As I mentioned in a previous post, there are a handful of new publications that I’m highlighting here one at a time.

The second is a chapter I wrote in the brand new T&T Clark Handbook of Hellenistic Jewish Literature in Greek, edited by my friend Marieke Dhont. This volume will be quite large and has a sweeping scope. It’s set to become available in just a few weeks from now.

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Alison Salvesen & The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint

I am pleased to be able to highlight an excellent new resource published this year in the world of Septuagint scholarship, The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint (Oxford 2021), edited by Alison Salvesen and T. Michael Law. I alluded to this new resource in a post back in April. Readers of this blog will (or should) know about this new resource, which is a boon to the field. (more…)