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Jim West wrote:
> Micah 1:1 in the MT reads "devar YHWH asher hayah"; while the LXX has "kai
> egeneto logos kuriou".   Is it my imagination, or does the LXX seem to be
> stressing the idea that the word of the Lord happened, while MT seems to
> stress to whom it happened?

I don't do much with LXX, but I think I would start by looking at how 
it translates similar phrases elsewhere to try and discover whether 
the translation was motivated by exegesis or grammar.
Dave
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