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Honigman Sylvie <1965-> |
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The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria [[electronic resource] ] : a study in the narrative of the letter of Aristeas / / Sylvie Honigman |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
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1-134-46295-6 |
1-280-02478-X |
0-203-59956-X |
0-203-49877-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-197) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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THE SEPTUAGINT AND HOMERIC SCHOLARSHIP IN ALEXANDRIA A study in the narrative of the Letter of Aristeas; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Genre and composition in the Book of Aristeas; 3 The central narrative: the transfiguration of history into charter myth; 4 Enforcing the narrative veracity: the rhetoric of historiography in the Book of Aristeas; 5 The origins and early history of the LXX: guidelines for a reconstruction of the past; 6 The Homeric paradigm: a hypothesis on the genesis of the LXX and the Book of Aristeas |
7 Conclusion: the Book of Aristeas between two worldsAppendix: outline of the composition of the Book of Aristeas; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index of sources; General index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works |
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