Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter One Introduction -- Presuppositions for the Study of Translation Technique -- Two Main Approaches to Translation Technique in the LXX -- What Approach Should Receive Priority? -- Textual Evidence Concerning the Vorlage of LXX-Minor Prophets -- The LXX as a Document "In Its Own Right" -- Studies of LXX-Amos -- Johnson -- Arietti -- DeWaard -- Dines -- Park -- Gelston -- Glenny -- Methodology -- Important Influences onMethodology -- Approach of this Study -- part one translation technique -- Chapter Two LXX-Amos: Literal or Free Translation? -- Introduction -- Categories of Literalism -- James Barr -- Emanuel Tov -- Studies of Literalism -- Statistical Analysis -- The Finnish School -- Limitations and Benefits of Studying Literalism -- Evidence of Literalismin LXX-Amos -- Word Order -- Quantitative Representation -- Representation of Constituent Elements -- Stereotyping -- Tendenz -- Summary -- ChapterThree The Translation of Difficult and UnknownWords -- UntranslatedWords -- 1:1 -- 3:12 -- 5:5 -- Contextual Guesses -- ????? ? -- 5:11 -- 5:7 and 6:12 -- 7:1 -- 7:2 and 5 -- 8:1 and 2 -- 5:11 -- 8:5, 6 -- 9:6 -- 9:9 -- ContextualManipulation -- 1:1 -- 2:16 -- 4:5 -- 5:9 -- 5:26 -- 6:1 -- 6:2 -- 6:7 -- 7:1 -- 8:3 -- 8:6 -- 9:7 -- Reliance on Parallelism -- 1:12 -- 5:8 -- 5:9 -- 6:1 -- 6:3 -- 6:4 -- Employment of GeneralWords -- 5:23 -- Etymological Rendering -- Root-linked Renderings -- Etymological Guesses -- Summary -- Chapter Four Visually Ambiguous Phenomena -- The Translator's Analysis of His Hebrew Vorlage -- Vocalization, Guessing and Translation -- Matres Lectionis and Vowels in the Hebrew Text -- Final Letters -- Scriptio Continua orWord-Division -- Intention of the Translator -- Possible Reasons for Mistranslating Visually Identical Forms -- Homonyms -- 4:2 -- 4:12 -- 6:2 -- 6:12 -- 6:13.

Homographs -- Translator's Lack of Understanding -- Immediate Context -- Wider Context -- Word Division -- Translator's Lack of Understanding -- Summary -- part two theology -- Chapter Five Anti-Syrian and anti-Samaritan Bias in LXX-Amos -- Address to Syria and Damascus in LXX-Amos -- Anti-Syrian and Anti-Samaritan Bias -- Anti-Syrian bias -- Anti-Samaritan bias -- 1:3-5 -- 1:15 -- 3:12 -- 4:2 -- 4:3 -- 4:5 -- 6:1 -- 6:7 -- 8:14 -- 9:7 -- Anti-Baal Polemic -- 1:4 -- 4:13 -- Hellenistic Religious Influences -- 2:4 -- 2:8 -- 7:9 -- Summary -- Chapter Six God in LXX-Amos -- Descriptions of God in LXX-Amos -- Παντ κρ τωρ in LXX-Amos -- Anthropomorphisms and Anthropopathisms -- Reverential Language -- Summary -- Chapter Seven Gentiles, Eschatology, and Messianism in LXX-Amos -- Eschatology -- 7:1 -- 4:2b -- 8:8 and 9:5 -- 8:14 -- 9:9-10 -- Gentiles -- 9:11-12 -- 9:15 -- Messianism -- Messianismin the LXX -- Messianismin LXX-Amos -- Summary -- Chapter Eight The Translator of LXX-Amos -- Contemporizing and Updating in LXX-Amos -- Geographical Updating in LXX-Amos -- Religious Updating in LXX-Amos -- Contemporization or Fulfillment? -- Scholar-Scribe or Dragoman? -- The Unity of LXX-Minor Prophets -- Date and Provenance of LXX-Amos -- Date -- Provenance -- Summary -- Chapter Nine Summary -- Selected Bibliography (Indices) -- General Index -- Index of Names -- Textual References.