Abstract
: The »narrative-critical approach« regards the Septuagint translators as storytellers. They were not rendering the linguistic surface, they were rather retelling a story. »Deviations« from the Hebrew source text point to their worldview and theology. Unfortunately, the way this conviction is put into practice by John A. Beck and Helmut Utzschneider is methodologically flawed on three accounts: 1. Target language discourse is disregarded. 2. »Deviations« from the source text are considered intentional. 3. Essential methodological steps are skipped. In my view, a narratological approach to the LXX is not impossible, as long as we realize its limited potential. The example of the Greek historical present shows how such research has to proceed from a comparative study of discourse features in Hebrew and Greek.
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