Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies. Bibliographical Review

Part 3: 1990–1998

Abstract

The beginnings of 1990ʼs was marked by a crisis of the BIOSCS due to decrease of the materials’ income. But afterwards, as this crisis has been overcome thanks to vigorous activity of the editorial staff, the bulletin, increased in volume, began to turn into a real scientific journal. In general, this period of history of the Septuagint studies is characterized by a surge of interest in the translation of the Septuagint into new European languages. This interest, in some way, was overlapped with a protracted process of creating lexicons and the age-old work on the academic publication of the Septuagint text in Göttingen. Since the translations were intended for a wide audience with its diverse interests, including religious ones, the task of comprehensive commentary on the Septuagint also became urgent.