The legend of the Septuagint : from classical antiquity to today /
The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah. Many versions of a legend about the translation have existed since antiquity. This is the first account of all of these versions providing a history of the uses and abuses of the legend in various Mediterranean cultures.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The letter of Aristeas
- The Hellenistic Jewish tradition
- The rabbis and the Greek Bible
- The Ptolemaic changes
- The church fathers and the translation of the Septuagint
- Among the Christians in the Orient
- The Muslims and the Septuagint
- Yosippon and the story of the seventy
- Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the Middle Ages
- The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the modern world.