Commedia elegantissima in prosa nuovamente composta per messer Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena intitulata Calandria

• Record Nr.: UNISA990001548210203316
• Autore: Bibbiena : <il>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bibbiena : [s.n.], 1970
• Descrizione fisica: 188 p. : 1 tav. ; 24 cm.
• Collocazione: VI.3.A. 1027(V B 720)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: A cura del Comitato per le onoranze al cardinal Bibbiena nel quinto centenario della nascita. - Segue: La Calandria de Bibbiena, di G. Padoan.

The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria [[electronic resource] ] : a study in the narrative of the letter of Aristeas / / Sylvie Honigman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784086603321
• Autore: Honigman Sylvie <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-46295-6; 1-280-02478-X; 0-203-59956-X; 0-203-49877-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 221.4/8/09
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-197) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of transla