The Legend of the Septuagint
From Classical Antiquity to Today
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- Authors:
- Abraham Wasserstein
- David J. Wasserstein, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
- Date Published: March 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521104616
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The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a legend about the miraculous nature of the translation have existed since antiquity. Beginning in the Letter of Aristeas, the legend describes how Ptolemy Philadelphus commissioned seventy-two Jewish scribes to translate the sacred Hebrew scriptures for his famous library in Alexandria. Subsequent variations on the story recount how the scribes, working independently, produced word-for-word, identical Greek versions. In the course of the following centuries, to our own time, the story has been adapted and changed by Jews, Christians, Muslims and pagans for many different reasons: to tell a story, to explain historical events and to lend authority to the Greek text for the institutions that used it. This book offers the first account of all of these versions over the last two millennia, providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various cultures around the Mediterranean.
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- Date Published: March 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521104616
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Letter of Aristeas
2. The Hellenistic Jewish Tradition
3. The Rabbis and the Greek Bible
4. The Ptolemaic Changes
5. The Church Fathers and the translation of the Septuagint
6. Among the Christians in the Orient
7. The Muslims and the Septuagint
8. Yosippon and the story of the Seventy
9. Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbinite Jews in the Middle Ages
10. The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the Modern World
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography and Sources
Index.
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