The Legend of the Septuagint

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  • The Legend of the Septuagint Book Detail

  • Author : Abraham Wasserstein
  • Release Date : 2006-04-03
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Genre : Religion
  • Pages : 252
  • ISBN 13 : 113945501X
  • File Size : 13,13 MB
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The Legend of the Septuagint by Abraham Wasserstein PDF Summary

Book Description: 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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