Today I want to highlight the fourth of five essays that have been published this year. (Three others already mentioned here, here, and here.) This particular publication is something a bit different from the others, all of which relate to the Septuagint in some way. This one is related to dictionaries, of all things.

This volume is edited by Ilan Stavans, who is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A few years back, he asked me to contribute a chapter focused on ancient Greek to this collection of essays.

The book is titled rather accurately for its somewhat unconventional approach. Essentially, each chapter is structured as an interview or conversation between Stavans and another scholar. And each chapter addresses the history of dictionaries for a particular language. In addition to my chapter, there are others on German, English, Esperanto, and several others. This project was a lot of fun and allowed me to go further into the history of philology on the biblical languages.