Bons and Joosten are editors of the forthcoming Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint, and as part of the process symposia were held in Strasbourg in November 2008 and June 2009 to foster interest in studying the vocabulary of the Greek version of the Old Testament in a historical perspective. The 10 papers here were selected from those gatherings. Five of them are in English, and consider such matters as a semantic investigation of the transition of the arete from the ancient world to the New Testament, problems and perspectives in Septuagint lexicography: the case of non-compliance, and barbarism in the Septuagint. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)