... 24552, Josephus, Antiquities xii, the Letter of Aristeas, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira 50. Although the evidence is only indirect, it suggests that the power of the high priesthood would have been limited by the Ptolemaic administrative structures and by the emergence...

... is to show the complexities of a region where Egyptian and Jewish cultures were in close contact since the very ancient past, and which cannot be explained through a simplistic categorization ‘Judaism versus Hellenism’. Letter of Aristeas Josephus JIGRE 22 117 JIGRE 125 JIGRE 129 Alexandria Aramaic...

... of discourse nationalism sacrifice Daniel book of dreams history affective Letter of Aristeas nation penetration and domination slaves and slavery erotics and eroticism Ignatius of Antioch Martyrdom of the Holy Apostle Peter recognition animals animality arena Roman Christian Christianus...

... acceptance of the list of twenty-two/twenty-four books in the Rabbinic period. Using the Hebrew Bible, the Scrolls, the Apocrypha, the Letter of Aristeas, the writings of Philo, Josephus, the New Testament, and Rabbinic literature as primary evidence the book argues that throughout the post...

... hierarchical relationship. Scholarly consensus regards the Letter of Aristeas (and its androcentric remarks) as a document devised to lend authority to the Septuagint translation by giving details of its procedure. The importance of the LXX itself lies not only in its content or its adoption...

... library. It emerges that here, as often, memory and myth are intertwined, and tradition is not wholly to be dismissed. The Septuagint's ‘charter text’, the Letter of Aristeas, contains an inseparable mixture of fact and fiction. It is suggested that the narrative evinces an ambivalent...

... (Septuagint and later Greek translations, Origen’s Hexapla), Latin (Vetus Latina and Vulgate), Syriac (Peshitta), the Samaritan Pentateuch, and the Targums. A special emphasis is accorded to the Septuagint and its story as told by the Letter of Aristeas and embellished by Jewish and Christian writers...