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The Letter of Aristeas: ‘Aristeas to Philocrates’ or ‘On the Translation of the Law of the Jews’

By Benjamin G. Wright III

Book information

Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Year
2015
ISBN
3110439042, 9783110439045
ISSN
1861-6003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2853054 bytes)
Series
Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature
Pages
XII+501\515
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-05-02 07:52:33
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Description

The Letter of Aristeas has been an object modern scholarly interest since the seventeenth century. It is best known for containing the earliest version of the translation of the Hebrew Law into Greek, and this story accounts for much of the scholarly attention paid to the work. Yet, this legend only takes up a small percentage of the work. Looking at Aristeas as a whole, the work reveals an author who has acquired a Greek education and employs both Jewish and Greek sources in his work, and he has produced a Greek book. Even though Aristeas has garnered scholarly attention, no fully fledged commentary has been written on it. The works of R. Tramontano, M. Hadas and others, often referred to as commentaries, only contain text and annotated notes. This volume fills the gap in the scholarship on Aristeas by providing a full, paragraph-by-paragraph commentary, containing a new translation, text-critical notes, general commentary, and notes on specific words, phrases and ideas.

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