The legend of the Septuagint
Subtitle: from classical antiquity to today
By: Abraham Wasserstein, David J. Wasserstein.
Contributors: Wasserstein, David.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780521854955
Subjects: Letter of Aristeas.; Bible. O.T. -- Versions -- Septuagint.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The letter of Aristeas; title: The Hellenistic Jewish tradition; title: The rabbis and the Greek Bible; title: The Ptolemaic changes; title: The church fathers and the translation of the Septuagint; title: Among the Christians in the Orient; title: The Muslims and the Septuagint; title: Yosippon and the story of the seventy; title: Karaites, Samaritans and Rabbanite Jews in the Middle Ages; title: The Septuagint in the Renaissance and the modern world.