Abstract
Some years ago I began my investigations of biblical anthropology with a monograph on nephesh. This monograph 1) dealt basically with two problems: the idea of the soul held by the forerunners and contemporaries of Israel, and the chronological study of the use of nephesh in the Old Testament. At that time I proposed that the next two steps should be: 1) a study of the translation of this Hebrew word in the ancient versions of the Old Testament, above all the Septuagint and the Vulgate; and 2) an examination of what I called the 'affinities' of nephesh, i.e., the other Hebrew words used in a more or less parallel way in order to express the anthropological reality. Recently I brought out a monograph on one of these words 2), and in the present study I intend to take up the problem of the understanding of the Israelite soul in the LXX.
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