Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT AND OF ITS TRANSMISSION
- PART II THE CONTENTS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OLD TESTAMENT
- PART III LITERARY USE, VALUE, AND TEXTUAL CONDITION OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT
- CHAPTER I Literary use of the Septuagint by non-Christian Hellenists
- CHAPTER II Quotations from the Septuagint in the New Testament
- CHAPTER III Quotations from the Septuagint in early Christian writings
- CHAPTER IV The Greek Versions as aids to Biblical Study
- CHAPTER V Influence of the Septuagint on Christian Literature
- CHAPTER VI Textual condition of the Septuagint, and problems arising out of it
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- APPENDIX: THE LETTER OF PSEUDO-ARISTEAS
- INDICES
CHAPTER I - Literary use of the Septuagint by non-Christian Hellenists
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- PART I THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT AND OF ITS TRANSMISSION
- PART II THE CONTENTS OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OLD TESTAMENT
- PART III LITERARY USE, VALUE, AND TEXTUAL CONDITION OF THE GREEK OLD TESTAMENT
- CHAPTER I Literary use of the Septuagint by non-Christian Hellenists
- CHAPTER II Quotations from the Septuagint in the New Testament
- CHAPTER III Quotations from the Septuagint in early Christian writings
- CHAPTER IV The Greek Versions as aids to Biblical Study
- CHAPTER V Influence of the Septuagint on Christian Literature
- CHAPTER VI Textual condition of the Septuagint, and problems arising out of it
- ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
- APPENDIX: THE LETTER OF PSEUDO-ARISTEAS
- INDICES
Summary
1. A happy accident has preserved fragments of the lost literature produced by the Hellenised Jews of Alexandria between the inception of the Alexandrian Version and the Christian era. The Greek historiographer, Alexander Cornelius—better known as Polyhistor (ὀ πολνΐστωρ), from his encyclopaedic learning—wrote a treatise On the Jews which contained extracts from Jewish and Samaritan Hellenistic writings. Of these a few were copied from Polyhistor's book by Clement of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea, in whose pages they may still be read. They consist of fragments of the historians Demetrius, Eupolemus, Artapanus, and Aristeas, the poets Philo, Theodotus, and Ezekiel, the philosopher Aristobulus, and Cleodemus or Malchas. There is reason to believe that Demetrius flourished c. b.c. 200; for the other writers the date of Polyhistor (c. b.c. 50) supplies a terminus ad quem, if we may assume that he wrote the work attributed to him by Clement and Eusebius.
The following references will enable the student to find the fragments: (1) Demetrius: Clem. Al. strom. i. 141. Eus. pr. ev. ix. 19(?), 21, 29. (2) Eupolemus: Clem. Al. strom. i. 141. Eus. pr. ev. ix. 17, 26 (= Clem. Al. strom. i. 153), 30—34, 39. (3) Artapanus: Eus. pr. ev. ix. 18, 23, 27. (4) Aristeas: Eus. pr. ev. ix. 25. (5) Philo the poet: Eus. pr. ev. ix. 20, 24, 37 (cf. Clem. Al. strom. i. 154). […]
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- An Introduction to the Old Testament in GreekWith an Appendix Containing the Letter of Aristeas, pp. 369 - 380Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1900