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The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the "Letter of Aristeas" »

Authors: Sylvie Honigman, S. Honigman, Honigman Sylvie
ISBN-13: 9780415280723, ISBN-10: 0415280729
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Sylvie Honigman

Book Synopsis

The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.

	Preface and acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Genre and composition in the Book of Aristeas	13
3	The central narrative: the transfiguration of history into charter myth	37
4	Enforcing the narrative veracity: the rhetoric of historiography in the Book of Aristeas	65
5	The origins and early history of the LXX: guidelines for a reconstruction of the past	93
6	The Homeric paradigm: a hypothesis on the genesis of the LXX and the Book of Aristeas	119
7	Conclusion: the Book of Aristeas between two worlds	145
App	Outline of the composition of the Book of Aristeas	149
	Notes	151
	Selected bibliography	191
	Index of sources	199
	General index	203