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King Ptolemy, a powerful ruler in his time, certainly did. He wasn't just interested in building grand things, but in building things that endured. He wasn't thinking small. In the...
And the Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating ancient text, gives us a glimpse into just that kind of royal dilemma. The story goes that a king—presumably Ptolemy II Philadelphus, thou...
This wasn't just any translation; this was the creation of the Septuagint, a pivotal moment in Jewish history and its interaction with the Hellenistic world. But amidst this grand ...
The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that purports to describe how the Septuagint – the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible – came to be, gives us a glimpse into just such ...
The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text from the Hellenistic period, gives us some food for thought on just that. It recounts the story of how the Septuagint, the Greek translat...
I’m talking about the kind of gathering described in the Letter of Aristeas, a text that purports to tell the story of how the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, creating the ...
That question has been nagging at me lately, especially after diving into the Letter of Aristeas. This text, purporting to be a first-hand account of the translation of the Hebrew ...
That's the picture the Letter of Aristeas paints for us, a glimpse into the lives of the 70 (or 72, depending on the tradition) Jewish scholars tasked with translating the Torah in...
Take hand-washing, for example. We do it all the time, but have you ever stopped to think about what it really means? The Letter of Aristeas gives us a glimpse into just that. This...
