The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus
of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew
Bible into Greek.
Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural
enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses
serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the
Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for
diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other
works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that
the process of translation was simultaneously a process of
establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the
text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek
scholars.
The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary
productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first
book-length study to be devoted to it.
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