The legend of the Septuagint : from classical antiquity to today / Abraham Wasserstein, David J. Wasserstein.
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TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages)Content type: - text
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- 0511191898
- 9780511191893
- 0511190719
- 9780511190711
- 0511191030
- 9780511191039
- 9780511499142
- 0511499140
- Letter of Aristeas
- Bible. Old Testament. Greek -- Versions -- Septuagint
- Lettre d'Aristée
- Bible A.T. Grec -- Versions -- Septante
- Bible. Old Testament
- Letter of Aristeas
- Bible. A.T. Apocryphes Lettre d'Aristée
- Bible. A.T. -- Versions grecques -- Septante -- Légendes -- Histoire et critique
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- Sacred Writings
- RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament
- Septuaginta
- Receptie
- 221.4/8/09 22
- BS744.A7 W37 2006eb
- 11.32
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-323) and index.
The letter of Aristeas -- The Hellenistic Jewish tradition -- The rabbis and the Greek Bible -- The Ptolemaic changes -- The church fathers and the translation of the Septuagint -- Among the Christians in the Orient -- The Muslims and the Septuagint -- Yosippon and the story of the seventy -- Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the Middle Ages -- The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the modern world.
The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah. Many versions of a legend about the translation have existed since antiquity. This is the first account of all of these versions providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various Mediterranean cultures.
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