Letter of Aristeas

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_documents
gptkb:New_Testament_apocrypha
gptkbp:attributedTo gptkb:Aristeas
gptkbp:author gptkb:Aristeas
gptkbp:category gptkb:Greek
gptkb:Judaism
gptkb:New_Testament_apocrypha
Second Temple period literature
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Josephus
gptkb:Philo_of_Alexandria
gptkb:Eusebius
gptkbp:commissionedBy gptkb:Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus
gptkbp:contains account of Jerusalem Temple
description of Jewish law
dialogue between Aristeas and Eleazar
praise of Jewish customs
gptkbp:dateWritten 2nd century BCE
gptkbp:debatedBy authorship
purpose
historicity
gptkbp:describes Jewish scholars translating Torah
translation of Torah into Greek
gptkbp:firstPublished 1471
gptkbp:genre gptkb:correspondence
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:theology
gptkb:Jewish_history
gptkbp:language gptkb:Greek
gptkbp:modernEditions gptkb:Moses_Hadas
gptkb:Benjamin_G._Wright
gptkb:H._St._J._Thackeray
gptkb:R._H._Charles
gptkb:Sidney_Jellicoe
gptkbp:numberOfTranslators 72
gptkbp:preservedIn gptkb:Codex_Alexandrinus
gptkb:Codex_Vaticanus
various manuscripts
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Hebrew_Bible
gptkb:Jewish_community
gptkb:Ptolemaic_Egypt
translation studies
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Alexandria
gptkbp:significance gptkb:Hellenistic_Judaism
Jewish-Greek relations
origin story of the Septuagint
gptkbp:subject translation of the Hebrew Bible
creation of the Septuagint
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Greek_Septuagint
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6
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