“... While it would certainly be the case that some LXX translators and some LXX manuscripts provide evidence of demythologization, there are a number of examples where the exact opposite is the case. The idea that the LXX reflects a concerted agenda to rid the text of divine plurality cannot be sustained. Modern LXX scholarship has recorded a number of manuscripts with very literal renderings for all the main mythologically-charged references to the divine council in the Hebrew Bible. The Göttingen LXX establishes the following readings: [...] Ps 82:1 (LXX, 81:1) συναγωγῇ θεῶν, ἐν μέσῳ δὲ θεοὺς [...] How the position articulated by Marcos can be defended in light of this manuscript evidence is difficult to discern. [...] To press the point concerning the LXX further, the translation and manuscript evidence of Ps 82:1 deserves additional attention. There is no manuscript inconsistency for the LXX reading [...], and R.B. Salters, in his study of the Ps 82:1 and the LXX, notes that this rendering may be in fact reflect [...] rather than [...] of MT. [...] Significantly, LXX takes the opposite route. ...”