{"product_id":"septuagint-and-homeric-scholarship-in-alexandria","title":"Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLetter of Aristeas\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. \u003cbr\u003eLong accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the \u003cem\u003eLetter\u003c\/em\u003e nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the \u003cem\u003eLetter \u003c\/em\u003eshould 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 translation was simultaneously a process of establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek scholars.\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eLetter of Aristeas\u003c\/em\u003e is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54257758306648,"sku":"9780415280723","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415280723.jpg?v=1769039116","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/septuagint-and-homeric-scholarship-in-alexandria","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}