Review of: Hayeon KiM. Multiple Authorship of the Septuagint Pentateuch: The Orig- inal Translators of the Pentateuch (Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible, 4). Leiden – Boston, MA, Brill, 2019. (16×24), xiv-207 p. ISBN 978-90-04-42051-9. €109.18.

Ellen De Doncker
(2025) Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses — Vol. 101, n° 1, p. 144-147 (2025)

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In 2020, Hayeon Kim published his 2007 doctoral dissertation on the difficult question of the number of translators of the Septuagint-Pentateuch. Already the Letter of Aristeas mentions multiple (72) translators at work, but the first modern account on the topic appears in the nineteenth century with Zacharias Frankel. Frankel states about the Lxx-Pentateuch (Historisch-Kritische Studien zu der Sep- tuaginta: Vorstudien zu der Septuaginta, Leipzig, Vogel, 1841, 11): “seine ein- zelnen Theile sind hinsichtlich der Sprachkenntnisse und der Auffassungsweise verschiedenartig übergetragen und zeigen uns die Übersetzer von einander unab- hängig”. Since then, different voices have followed Frankel (esp. the so-called Finnish school) or proposed one single translator for all five books instead (e.g. Thackeray, Swete). Now Kim’s book collects these different perspectives and aims to offer a new, comprehensive answer to the question.
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Ellen De Doncker. (2025). Review of: Hayeon KiM. Multiple Authorship of the Septuagint Pentateuch: The Orig- inal Translators of the Pentateuch (Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible, 4). Leiden – Boston, MA, Brill, 2019. (16×24), xiv-207 p. ISBN 978-90-04-42051-9. €109.18. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 101(1), 144-147. https://doi.org/10.2143/ETL.101.1.0000000 (Original work published 2025)