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Let’s journey back to ancient Egypt, to the court of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a king with a thirst for knowledge and a library that was the envy of the ancient world. He was determ...
The king, deeply interested in matters of governance and morality, poses questions to his advisors. First, he asks how to maintain the truth. The response? A lie brings disgrace, e...
I'm talking about the Letter of Aristeas. It's an incredible text that purports to describe how the Septuagint, that famous Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, came to be. But t...
The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating ancient text, gives us a glimpse into just that. It recounts the story of how the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, came ...
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'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...
And at its heart lies a fascinating question: what happens when a sacred text meets a new culture? Our window into this world is the Letter of Aristeas, a text itself shrouded in a...
The Letter of Aristeas gives us a glimpse into that world, a world where messing with holy scripture wasn't just frowned upon, it could have… consequences. The Letter of Aristeas, ...
This is the world Megillat Antiochus throws us into. The story begins with a chilling proposition, whispered amongst the advisors of King Antiochus. "Come now," they urged, "let us...
