The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria : a study in the narrative of the Letter of Aristeas / / Sylvie Honigman
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| Autore: |
Honigman Sylvie <1965->
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| Titolo: |
The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria : a study in the narrative of the Letter of Aristeas / / Sylvie Honigman
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 221.4/8/09 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Septuagint and Homeric scholarship in Alexandria |
| ISBN: | 1-134-46295-6 |
| 1-280-02478-X | |
| 0-203-59956-X | |
| 0-203-49877-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966932703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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