Essays in this volume inlcude: Jan Joosten – Biblical Hebrew as mirrored in the Septuagint; The question of influence from Spoken Hebrew Leeor Gottleib – Repetition due to Homoeoteleuton Michael Segal – The literary development of psalm 151: A new look at the Septuagint version Kristin de Troyer – The letter of the King and the letter of Mordecai Yosef Ofer – A Masoretic note in the Aleppo Codex concerning the composite words