Why is Yahweh as the rock in the Hebrew Old Testament translated by God or helper in the Septuagint? How does the equivalent helper come to be used for God as fortress as well as shield and rock? Which role is played by the translators' theological presuppositions in the rendering of divine epithets? comprehensive study of translation equivalents in LXX for metaphorical epithets of God and for the same terms employed in literal meaning or as ordinary metaphors and of a study of theological exegesis in LXX Psalms.