• in notes to his reprint of 1705. Due to this, the author of the letter of Aristeas is most often referred to as pseudo-Aristeas. Modern scholarship is...
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  • Assumption of Moses (Testament of Moses) Book of Enoch Book of Jubilees Psalms of Solomon Letter of Aristeas The Odes of Solomon Testaments of the Twelve...
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    Septuagint (category Early versions of the Bible)
    translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew. The full Greek title derives from the story recorded in the Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates...
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  • (יוסף ואסנת) Letter of Aristeas (איגרת אריסטיאס) Letter of Jeremiah (איגרת ירמיהו) Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum (קדמוניות המקרא) Life of Adam and Eve...
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  • Aristeas (Ἀριστέας) was a 7th-century BC Greek poet. Aristeas may also refer to: Aristeas of Stratonice, ancient Olympic pankration champion Aristeas...
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    that of other texts such as 4 Maccabees, Letter of Aristeas, and the works of Philo, which all came from this community. One specific indication of Egyptian...
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  • Ptolemaic Baris (category Ancient history of Jerusalem)
    conquest of Jerusalem. The most detailed account of the Ptolemaic citadel is to be found in the pseudoepigraphical Letter of Aristeas, an account of the translation...
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    His interpretation of the unclean beasts and fishes was in line with the thought of his time, being found in the Letter of Aristeas, for instance. His...
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    Ages. University of Chicago Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-226-48233-0. Retrieved 11 January 2013. Tracy 2000, p. 343. Letter of Aristeas, 9–12.  Laërtius,...
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    first indication of this view can be found in the 1st century BC Letter of Aristeas, which argues that this prohibition is a lesson to teach justice,...
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  • 2 Baruch (redirect from Letter of Baruch)
    first 77 chapters of the book. Chapters 78–87 are usually referred to as the Letter of Baruch to the Nine and a Half Tribes. The Letter of Baruch had a separate...
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  • The Letter of Jeremiah, also known as the Epistle of Jeremiah, is a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament; this letter is attributed to Jeremiah...
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  • 2 Enoch (redirect from Secrets of Enoch)
    Qumran and of a related text at Nag Hammadi, have made possible to have an idea about the Melchisedek controversy, involving also 2EM and the Letter to the...
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  • 2017. "Jewish Paideia: Greek Education in the Letter of Aristeas and 2 Maccabees." Journal for the Study of Judaism 48, no. 2: 182–202. Trotter, Jonathan...
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  • AD) Testament of Adam (Christian in current form c. late 3rd cent. AD, but used Jewish sources from c. 150–200 AD). The Letter of Aristeas (Jewish, c. 200–150...
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  • of the Prayer of Manasseh. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press. NET Bible The shorter books of the Apocrypha: Tobit, Judith, Rest of Esther, Baruch, Letter...
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    categorized organization of scrolls. According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas composed between c. 180 –...
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  • legendary account in the "Letter of Aristeas". The number of companions of Zoroaster who were killed The conventional number of disciples sent forth by...
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  • Divine law (redirect from Law of God)
    in Judaism Biblical Mount Sinai, Shavuot#Giving of the Torah, Yitro (parsha), and the Letter of Aristeas. And note disputes over Biblical canonicity. Chaniotis...
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  • One of the apocryphal books, the Psalms of Solomon is a group of eighteen psalms (religious songs or poems) written in the first or second centuries BC...
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  • translation. The themes and style of the book are similar to those of 2 Maccabees, the Letter of Aristeas, and the Book of Esther, suggesting the author had...
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    First Letter of Peter. Cambridge University Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-107-00328-6. "Apocalyptic literature". Encyclopaedia Biblica. Athenagoras of Athens...
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    2001, p. 44 Porphyry FGrH 260 F 43 Hölbl 2001, p. 61 Letter of Aristeas 180; Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 12.93 Hölbl 2001, pp. 44–46 Justin 26.3.2...
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  • translators, and the primary ancient account of the process is the circa 2nd-century BCE Letter of Aristeas. Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls attest to Hebrew texts...
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  • The Assumption of Moses, also known as the Testament of Moses (Hebrew עליית משה), is a 1st-century Jewish apocryphal work. It purports to contain secret...
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  • 2018. Athanasius, The Letter of Athanasius, our people Father, Archbishop of Alexandria, to Marcellinus on the Interpretation of the Psalms, archived 14...
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    to early-7th century Cave of Treasures, and then in Letter 13 to John of Litarba, and Scholion 10, both authored by Jacob of Edessa (d. 708). Later still...
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    Athanasius. CHURCH FATHERS: Letter 39 (Athanasius). newadvent. Archived from the original on 21 November 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016. of Aquileia, Rufinus....
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    part of the biblical canon. In a 405 letter, Pope Innocent I declared it part of the canon. In Jerome's Prologue to Judith, he claims that the Book of Judith...
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    translators of the Septuagint from the Letter of Aristeas. In translating the Vulgate, Jerome selected the reading of seventy-two. The Gospel of Luke is not...
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