Die Theologie der Septuaginta/The Theology of the Septuagint. Edited by Hans Ausloos and Bénédicte Lemmelijn
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the fifth volume to appear in the Gütersloher series Handbuch zur Septuaginta/Handbook of the Septuagint. For this volume the editors have selected eight themes within which the material is arranged; they disclaim anything as ‘uncritical’ as a systematic account of Septuagint theology. They do however use the term ‘Septuagint’ or ‘LXX’ as shorthand, while acknowledging that there was probably never one original text—or if somehow there was, it would be impossible to know. Now, 2021 was an annus mirabilis for big collaborative books on the LXX. There is the T&T Clark Handbook of Septuagint Research, edited by William A. Ross and W. Edward Glenny (Bloomsbury, 2021); also The Oxford Handbook of the Septuagint, edited by Alison G. Salvesen and Timothy Michael Law (Oxford University Press, 2021). This earlier book has the look of something more dedicated and less introductory: much more a ‘state of the question(s)’. It builds on the sure foundations already laid by S. Kreuzer (ed.), Einleitung in die Septuaginta, the first of the handbooks in this series (2016), and the conference volumes on the LXX of the previous decade. Yet, like most multi-authored works (and this one is pleasingly ‘international’), there is a sense of bringing what each has already prepared to the banquet, rather than something more, well, systematic. Sometimes there is duplication of ‘foods’, and the diet is unbalanced (Martin Meiser on law in the historical books is good but very short). In turn this review is of necessity somewhat selective rather than comprehensive. This is a rich repast and requires more than one sitting to do it justice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.028 | 0.010 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".