According to the traditional view, Theodotion was a reviser of the original translation of the Jewish Scriptures from Hebrew-Aramaic into Greek known as the Septuagint. From the testimony of Irenaeus of Lyon, he was a Jewish proselyte from Ephesus (Iren. Haer. 3.21.1); D. Barthélemy identifies him with Jonathan ben  ͑҅Uziel, author of Targum Jonathan (Barthélemy, 1963, …