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Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

The Letter of Aristeas

by H. St. J. Thackeray · H. St. J. Thackeray (trans.)

An English translation of the Letter of Aristeas, the Hellenistic Jewish work that tells the legend of the translation of the Torah into Greek under Ptolemy II. Thackeray, a leading Septuagint scholar, provides an introduction and notes.

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