Revisiting the προσήλυτος in "the LXX"

One of the more heated lexical debates in LXX studies surrounds the meaning of the Greek term προσήλυτος. Yet the only thorough examination of the word in the LXX is W. C. Allen's 1894 article "On the Meaning of ΠΡΟΣΗΛΥΤΟΣ in the Septuagint," which argues that the LXX translators distinguish carefully between two different uses of גר in the Hebrew Bible: the first is rendered by the Greek word πάροικος and is used in contexts where a convert to …