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229*201 --- Brief van Aristeas --- Letter of Aristeas. --- Aristeas' epistle --- Aristeas' letter --- Aristeas to Philocrates --- Aristeae Historia LXXII interpretum --- Historia LXXII interpretum --- Aristeae Ad Philocratem epistula --- Ad Philocratem epistula --- Aristeasbrief --- 229*201 Brief van Aristeas

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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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The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of transla

Homer --- Letter of Aristeas. --- Bible. --- Versions --- Septuagint. --- 221.05*2 --- 221.02*3 --- Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: grieks; septuagint --- Aristeas' epistle --- Aristeas' letter --- Aristeas to Philocrates --- Aristeae Historia LXXII interpretum --- Historia LXXII interpretum --- Aristeae Ad Philocratem epistula --- Ad Philocratem epistula --- Aristeasbrief --- 221.02*3 Oud Testament: bijbelse filologie: grieks; septuagint --- 221.05*2 Septuagint (LXX) en andere Griekse vertalingen --- Homer. --- Septuaginta. --- Aristeas, --- Aristeas . --- Ad Philocratem. --- Lettre d'Aristée. --- Septante. --- Versions.

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"Recent research into the Septuagint has revealed numerous examples for modifications of the meaning of the Hebrew text in the course of its translation into Greek. The collection of essays by one of the leading scholars on the Septuagint shows how complex the translation of individual books was, provides reasons for differences between the Hebrew and Greek Bible, and paves the way for a theology of the Septuagint. Articles introduce the field of Septuagint studies, the problem of the letter of Aristeas, and the Hellenistic environment and the hermeneutics of Hellenistic Judaism"--

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"Who could write the history of Hellenistic Judaism without taking heed of the Letter to Aristeas? The text has been read since the 17th century as the work of a poor historian. It is now considered as a late apology, built on an older legendary tradition., according to which the Jewish law was translated in Greek under King Ptolemy II Philadelphus. This hypothesis may account for the apparent carelessness of the narration and the many historical errrors of the Letter, but the existence of the legend it is built upon cannot be proved. With the help of what Josephus, Justin Martyr, Anatolius of Laodicea and Epiphanius of Salamis wrote on the birth of the Greek Bible, an alternative interpretation may be developed, based on the Platonician myth of the ages of the world. The reign of Ptolemy and the pontificate of Eleazar are to be considered a golden age, hiding an age of iron, which is its exact opposite. This age of iron matches what is known from independent sources of the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon and the pontificate of John Hycarnus. It transforms the Letter of Aristeas into a political pamphlet urging the fall of the Hasmonean dynasty, weakened by the bold attempt of Alexander Jannaeus against Ptolemais. This new hyporthesis gives sense to the too many elements of the Letter which had been considered to this date as mere digressions or errors."--English summary.

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