"You shall serve YHWH your God ..." (Deut 6:13). Worship in the Hebrew and Greek Versions of Deuteronomy

Undoubtedly, 'worship' is one of the central themes of the book of Deuteronomy. Within this book, it is not only accentuated that, once arrived in the Promised Land, the Israelites will have to 'worship' YHWH their God in the one and central sanctuary. Moreover, in many instances, Deuteronomy warns against and strongly condemns 'worshipping' other gods. In this paper, I will firstly focus on the terminology used in the Hebrew text of Deuteronomy to express the notion of 'worship'. Thereafter, the Greek equivalents will be dealt with, in order to find out if and to what extent the Septuagint translator of Deuteronomy has been accentuating his own theological/ideological/exegetical perspectives, bearing in mind Professor Cook’s statement that it is "in the differences between the source text and the target text that interpretation takes place" (Johann Cook, Towards the Formulation of a Theology of the Septuagint, 2009)