The Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World

Commenting on my post on The impact of LXX on Philo Ellen Birnbaum reminds me of the fact that there is an interesting project going on at Reading University on The Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World.
It is in fact a joint venture between the University of Reading and the University of Southampton (and maybe some other institutions.)Directors of the Greek Bible Project are Professor Tessa Rajak, (University of Reading), Dr Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton), Post-Doctoral Research Fellow: Dr James Aitken (University of Reading), Research Associate: Dr Jenny Dines (University of Cambridge), Director, AHRB Parkes Centre Professor David Cesarani (University of Southampton), Projects Coordinator, AHRB Parkes Centre, and Dr. Jo Reilly (University of Southampton).
The aim of this interesting project is
to will provide a re-evaluation of the Greek Bible as a source for Jews' interpretation of the political, social and intellectual culture of their hellenistic world (defined as continuing into the period of the early Roman Empire).
Objectives
1. to evaluate existing criteria for dating and contextualising the translation of the various books of the Greek Bible;
2. to create a computer-based lexicon of political, legal and administrative vocabulary in the LXX Corpus (broadly interpreted);
3. through a comparative examination of the translators' vocabulary, to develop new criteria for determining, where possible, the chronological, cultural and political context of those translations;
4. to produce a synthesis of proposals, resulting from the research, about a range of critical issues including:
a. Jewish translators' appropriation of political, social and intellectual constructs in the hellenistic world;
b. reflections in the translations of any of the following: the development of Jewish political ideas and practice; a sense of ease or unease in the hellenistic world; a response to criticism of Judaism; Jewish fears about assimilation. Further information about the project can be gained at its homepage. There is a lot of interesting info to be found on the many subpages of the project's homepage.

Ellen B also mentions that there was a session devoted to this project at the last SBL meeting, and I understand that the participants hope to maintain a regular presence at these meetings. I in fact attended parts of teh Atlanta session, listening in to the lecture by Robert Kraft. I thought he had published that lecture on the web, but now I am not able to find it any more. He might have removed it.