The portrayal of Africa and Africans in the book of Jeremiah by David T. Adamo

“…The author of the book Jeremiah made references to Ancient Africa and Africans about 53 times in the Septuagint, and 67 times in the Masoretic Text. This indicates that the prophet Jeremiah is very familiar with ancient Africa and Africans. …”
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Hebrew Hermeneutics and Inquisitorial Persecution: The Case of The Hebraist from Salamanca Martín Martínez de Cantalapiedra (XVI<sup>th</sup> Century) by Ricardo Muñoz Solla

“…All of them were accused of deviating from the genuine sense of the <em>Vulgate</em> in their more literal interpretations of the Masoretic text. The purpose of this article is to provide new evidence for the intellectual biography of Master Martínez de Cantalapiedra as well a to analyze the hermeneutical principles exposed during his inquisitorial in which he defended the Hebrew knowledge as an essential means of interpreting the Old Testament.…”
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Psalm 29 as a poetological example of Peshitta Psalms translation by Amir Vasheghanifarahani

“…Prior studies have primarily focused on comparing Peshitta Psalms with the Masoretic Text (MT), the Septuagint and Targum, leaving a gap in the analysis of Peshitta Psalms within the context of Classical Syriac Poetry. …”
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The Linguistic-Textual Markers in the Late Medieval Slavonic Biblical Translations from Jewish Originals by Alexander Igorevich Grishchenko

“…Such forms do not exclude the possibility that their source was not the Masoretic Text itself, but translations of the latter made within the framework of the same Jewish tradition, i.e., the Targums (cfr. in particular the ‘Old Yiddish Targum’ and the ‘Judeo-Turkic Targum’). …”
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A Glossary for the Song of songs in Zabelin’s set: the loanwords and their sources by Alexander Grishchenko

“…Furthermore, the Glossary was apparently a draft of the Vilna Codex translation which used materials of the Museum translation and other sources, including the Hebrew Masoretic Text. The words in the Glossary, which were borrowed from High German—with the Old Polish and/or Old Czech mediation—and were adopted by the end of the 15th century, have a textual accordance to the High German translations of the Song of Songs, both of the Christian ones made from the Vulgate (vorlutherische deutsche Bibeln) and of the Jewish ones made in so-called Old Yiddish, or Proto-Yiddish (in Hebrew script): these translations into the “Ashkenazi language” are known from the 14th–15th-centuries manuscripts and are kept in full in the 1544-first-printed editions of the Jewish Humash with the Five Scrolls which also contain the Song of Songs.…”
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An attempt of study of the linguistic problem of Job 12.24–25 by Alexei Nadezhkin

“…The poetic analysis carried out by the author of the article shows that the Septuagintal translation violates certain laws of Biblical parallelism and generates structures not characteristic of the latter, which may be evidence of greater accuracy of the Masoretic text. However, some of the available Targum readings reduce the validity of this argument. …”
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An Analytical Study of the Translations of Genesis 1:26-27 in the Akuapem-Twi Bible by Emmanuel Twumasi-Ankrah, Emmanuel Kojo Ennin Antwi, Frimpong Wiafe, Isaac Boaheng

“…For instance, after a careful study of ancient (source) texts such as the Masoretic Text, Septuagint and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and their comparison with the Akuapem-Twi Bible translation concerning Genesis 1:26-27, this paper argues that the Hebrew verb āsāh (v. 26), translated as bcc, “created” could be rendered as yɔɔ/yjj, “made” and the pronoun, ‘ōṯo (v. 27), presented as wɔn, “them” should be interpreted as no, “him,” in order to establish literary consistency with the source texts.…”
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A critical edition of the Book of Proverbs in Ethiopic by Pilkington, H

“…No evidence is found to prove that the Hebrew sources used in Ethiopic were different from the Masoretic text known to us.</p> <p>The structure and layout of the book are found to depend on the LXX (arrangement of chapters and verses). …”

Recensioner by Carl Johan Berglund, John-Christian Eurell, Magnus Evertsson, Josef Forsling, Stefan Green, Lukas Hagel, Per-Olof Hermansson, Søren Holst, Joel Kuhlin, Mikael Larsson, Johannes Leckström, Bo Krister Ljungberg, Richard Pleijel, Adam Sabir, Kamilla Skarström Hinojosa, James Starr, Ludvig Svensson, Mikael Tellbe, Lennart Thörn, Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Karin Tillberg, Cecilia Wassén, Martin Wessbrandt, David Willgren, Tobias Ålöw

“…Horn (red), Childhood in History: Perceptions of Children in the Ancient Medieval Worlds (Mikael Larsson) Ben Zvi, Ehud and Diana Vikander Edemann, Imagining the Other and Constructing Israelite Identity in the Early Second Temple Period (Karin Tillberg)  Biblica, nuBibeln (Per-Olof Hermansson) Brodersen, Alma, The End of the Psalter: Psalms 146–150 in the Masoretic Text, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Septuagint (David Willgren) Dodson Joseph R. and David E. …”
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