"... Further contributions to the issue of the redaction-critical and historiographical value of the Old Greek Joshua were made by Mazor in her unpublished dissertation (‘Septuagint Translation’) and a number of articles. In her view, both the Masoretic and LXX of Joshua reflect editorial reworking of the Joshua narratives on the Hebrew level. Although the Greek translation can be qualified as relatively free, it is literal enough to ascribe all literary activity to the Hebrew stages preceding the translation. In Mazor’s view (‘Origin’), the plus in LXX Joshua 6:26a reflects an ancient historiographical parallel to the narrative of a city built by Ozan at the cost of two of his sons, as preserved in the original story of 1 Chronicles 7.21a-24a. With respect to the preceding narrative, Joshua 6.1-20, she argues for the originality of the Masoretic version, whereas the pluses in LXX Joshua 6:9, 13, 20, mentioning explicitly the priests, would reflect a nomistic reworking of the narrative. The motive behind the alterations would have been the wish to conform to the original story in which the shofar was blown by lay people to the priestly legislation found in Numbers 10:1-10, which reserves this right exclusively for the Aaronide priests (compare Targum Jonathan, Josephus, Antiquities 5.22-23, 27 and the War Scroll) ..."