The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria :
[Book]
a study in the narrative of the Letter of Aristeas /
Sylvie Honigman.
New York :
Routledge,
2003.
1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-197) and index.
Introduction -- Genre and composition in the Book of Aristeas -- The central narrative ; the transfiguration of history into charter myth -- Enforcing the narrative veracity : the rhetoric of historiography in the Book of Aristeas -- The origins and early history of the LXX : guidelines for a reconstruction of the past -- The Homeric paradigm : a hypothesis on the genesis of the LXX and the Book of Aristeas -- Conclusion: the Book of Aristeas between two worlds.
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The etter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.
Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria.
0415280729
Bible., Old Testament., Greek-- Versions-- Septuagint.