With apologies for the long delay, the Septuagint Sessions is back online with one more episode to end the year. In 2015 expect more frequency and some other exciting developments about which I'll say something in due course. This interview with Ross Wag

In this interview with Alison Salvesen of the University of Oxford, we discuss the topic of her Göttingen Septuagint Summer School: Isaiah in Jewish and Christian Tradition. She talks about some of the current issues in the study of the Septuagint Isai...

This podcast is part 2 of an interview with Francis Borchardt [Listen to part 1 here]. We discuss the usefulness of 2 Maccabees 2:13-15 in discussions on the formation of the canon, and he offers 5 proofs for why this passage cannot be used as evidence...

In this podcast, Francis Borchardt of the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Hong Kong joins us to talk about the Prologue to Sirach and the question of the emerging Hebrew Bible canon. Since the writer of the Prologue — assumed to be Ben Sira's grandson

[This podcast first appeared in video and can be viewed here.] - In this podcast, Professor Benjamin Wright joins us from Lehigh University to talk about translation theory and the Interlinear Paradigm for Septuagint Studies.

In this podcast, I wanted to talk about a problem in research on the LXX that stems from a canonical bias. To subscribe to the new podcast, use an RSS reader and subscribe to this feed, or you can go directly to iTunes and subscribe there.

A quick podcast to address a misunderstanding that has arisen from my exuberant advocacy of the Septuagint. - To subscribe to the new podcast, use an RSS reader and subscribe to this feed, or you can go directly to iTunes and subscribe there.

This episode is the third in the series, "On the Language of the Septuagint." Today I discuss John Lee's forthcoming work — based on his 2011-2012 Grinfield Lectures in Oxford — on the higher register of the Greek Isaiah.

In this episode, I discuss rhetorical features in the Greek Pentateuch based on James Aitken's 2011 article. These examples are used to further the argument in the last episode concerning the translators' knowledge of Greek. -

In the second episode of The Septuagint Sessions, I talk about the impressions of the translators’ skills many gain from the peculiar style of the Septuagint translation. Does the Greek of the Septuagint betray translators ignorant of the Greek into w