The meaning of the Letter of Aristeas : : in light of biblical interpretation and grammatical tradition, and with reference to its historical context / / Ekaterina Matusova.

• Superior document: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, Volume 260
• VerfasserIn: Matusova, Ekaterina ,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: German; English
• Series: Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; Volume 260.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (173 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Tables of Contents; Body; Introduction; Chapter 1: The biblical paradigm, or the Letter of Aristeas as Rewritten Scripture; 1.1 The liberation of Jewish slaves in connection with the translation as elaboration on Deut 30:1-3; 1.2 The description of the Promised Land (Let. Aris. 83-120): elaboration on Deut 30:3-5; 1.3 The allegorical interpretation of the Law and the Symposium (Let. Aris. 128-293): another case of harmonization; 1.4 Conclusions: The rationale and methodology of the composition

1.5 Conclusions: The message of the "biblical paradigm" and its Sitz im LebenChapter 2: Account of the translation, or the grammatical paradigm; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Thesis of Kahle - Van der Kooij; 2.3 The Aristotelian background to the narrative in Let. Aris. 30-2; 2.4 The 72 and the anecdote about the recension of Homer in the scholia to Dionysius Thrax; 2.4.1 The 72; 2.5 Let. Aris. 301-11 and the six (or four) steps of grammar; 2.6 Let. Aris. 310-11 and literary criticism; 2.7 Thesis of analogy with Homer; 2.8 The meaning of grammatical terminology: interim conclusions

3.3 Oriental religious communities in the Hellenistic states: Rules of integration3.3.1 The Jewish cult in the Ptolemaic state ; 3.4 Religious policies of the Ptolemies, and the time of Ptolemy Philopator; Political context under Ptolemy IV Philopator; 3.4.1 Religious policies of the Ptolemies and measures on regulation of cults; 3.5 Leasures on regulation of cults and Jewish sources on the history of the Jewish text and temple in Egypt; 3.5.1 The second demand of the BGU VI 1211 and the letter of Onias (Jos. Ant. 13. 65-71); The letter of Onias

3.5.2 The third demand of the BGU VI 1211 and the Letter of Aristeas3.6 Perverse ritual practices and deterioration of the ancestral tradition; Elephantine; Magical papyri and dedications in pagan temples; Ptolemaic Jewish papyri; 3.7 Conclusions; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Selected sources and translations; Classical authors; General bibliography; Index fontium; Index nominum