... hierarchical relationship. Scholarly consensus regards the Letter of Aristeas (and its androcentric remarks) as a document devised to lend authority to the Septuagint translation by giving details of its procedure. The importance of the LXX itself lies not only in its content or its adoption...

... the question of androcentricity and its corollary, misogyny, that reached its nadir in the witch hunts of the late Middle Ages and beyond. In the Hebrew Bible, androcentricity may point to a pre‐occupation with genetic continuity, but when Semitic masculine tradition meets Hellenistic culture, womanhood...

... and the Authorized Version, and the Dutch State Translation. The context is the challenge mounted by feminist scholarship, particularly those scholars of the ‘second wave’, who have tried and convicted Scripture of androcentricity and misogyny. Translated passages in Genesis 1–4 that deal with the male‐female...