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Letter of Aristeas

Letter of Aristeas

Letter of Aristeas – the Legendary Origin of the Septuagint

ByRob Bradshaw November 18, 2020October 29, 2020

The document known as the Letter of Aristeas purports to be a contemporary record, by a Greek holding a high position at the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285- 247 B.C.), of the translation of the Hebrew Pentateuch into Greek, undertaken at the instance of the royal librarian, Demetrius of Phalerum. The familiar name “the Septuagint,”…

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