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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Legend of the Septuagint

From Classical Antiquity to Today

by Abraham Wasserstein and David J. Wasserstein

A study of how the story of the seventy translators told in the Letter of Aristeas was retold and transformed by Jewish, Christian and Muslim writers over two thousand years. The authors follow the legend through Philo, the rabbis, the Church Fathers and later traditions.

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