Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Letter of Aristeas
- 2 The Hellenistic Jewish Tradition
- 3 The Rabbis and the Greek Bible
- 4 The Ptolemaic Changes
- 5 The Church Fathers and the Translation of the Septuagint
- 6 Among the Christians in the Orient
- 7 The Muslims and the Septuagint
- 8 Yosippon and the Story of the Seventy
- 9 Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the Middle Ages
- 10 The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the Modern World
- Conclusion
- Appendix: In Partibus Infidelium: Zosimus of Panopolis
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Letter of Aristeas
- 2 The Hellenistic Jewish Tradition
- 3 The Rabbis and the Greek Bible
- 4 The Ptolemaic Changes
- 5 The Church Fathers and the Translation of the Septuagint
- 6 Among the Christians in the Orient
- 7 The Muslims and the Septuagint
- 8 Yosippon and the Story of the Seventy
- 9 Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the Middle Ages
- 10 The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the Modern World
- Conclusion
- Appendix: In Partibus Infidelium: Zosimus of Panopolis
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index
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- The Legend of the SeptuagintFrom Classical Antiquity to Today, pp. 324 - 334Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006