The series Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies (DCLS)is concerned principally with research into those books of the Greek Bible (Septuagint) which are not contained in the Hebrew canon, and into intertestamentary and early Jewish literature from the period around the 3rd century BCE to the 2nd century CE. The series was launched in 2007 in collaboration with the "International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature." It provides a logical extension to the Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook, which has been published since...

The impact of earlier works to the literature of early Judaism is an intensively researched topic in contemporary scholarship. This volume is based on an international conference held at the Sapientia College of Theology in Budapest, May 18 21, 2010. The contributors explore scriptural authority in early Jewish literature and the writings of nascent Christianity. They study the impact of earlier literature in the formulation of theological concepts and books of the Second Temple Period.

In Jerome's influential Latin Vulgate translation of the Book of Judith, which dates to ca. 400 AD, only about half of the text accords with the earlier Greek translation known as the Septuagint. Lange's study employs exegetical methods as well as methods native to the cognitive sciences to analyze the textual figures and uncover these discrepancies, which she then explicates in context of the political and social history of the time.