Letter of Aristeas (biblio)
Editions and Translations
Editions
- Schard (1561; ed. pr.); Schmidt (1870; 1st critical ed.); Wendland (1900); Thackeray (1902); Tramontano (1931); Hadas (1951); Pelletier (1962)
Modern translations
- Done (1685; English); Wendland (1900; German); Thackeray (1903; English); Andrews (1913; English); Thackeray (1917; English); Riessler (1928; German); Tramontano (1931; Italian); Meecham (1932; English); Kahana (1937; Hebrew); Pelletier (1962; French); Meisner (1973; German); Kraus Reggiani (1979; Italian); Fernandez-Marcos (1983; Spanish); Schutt (1985; English)
Selected Bibliography (articles)
2010s
2014
- Daniel Barbu / Aristeas the Tourist / Bulletin der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Judaistische Forschung 23 (2014) 8 pp.
- Moyna McGlynn / Authority and Sacred Space: Concepts of the Jerusalem Temple in Aristeas, Wisdom, and Josephus / Biblische Notizen 161 (2014) 115-140
- Luke Neubert / Ein heidnischer König fragt nach jüdischem Rat : der Aristeasbrief / Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 71 (2014) 25-27.
2013
- Benjamin G. Wright / Pseudonymous Authorship and Structures of Authority in the "Letter of Aristeas" / Scriptural Authority in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity (2013) 43-61
2012
- Uriel Rappaport / The "Letter of Aristeas" again / Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 21,3 (2012) 285-303
- Nina Irrgang / Eine Bibliothek als Kanon : der "Aristeasbrief" und der hellenistische Literaturbetrieb Alexandriens / Kanon in Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion (2012) 257-292
2011
- Benjamin G. Wright / The Letter of Aristeas and the Question of Septuagint Origins Redux / Journal of Ancient Judaism 2,3 (2011) 304-326
2010
- Armin Lange / Textual Standardization in Egyptian Judaism and in the "Letter of Aristeas" / Die Septuaginta - Texte, Theologien, Einflüsse (2010) 48-71
- Ian W. Scott / Revelation and Human Artefact: The Inspiration of the Pentateuch in the "Book of Aristeas" ' / Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 41,1 (2010) 1-28
2000s
2009
- Jonathan More / Kingship ideology : a neglected element in Aristeas' charter myth for Alexandrian Judaism / Septuagint and Reception (2009) 299-319.
- Jackie A. Naudé / The role of metatexts in the translations of sacred texts : the case of the Book of Aristeas and the Septuagint / Septuagint and Reception (2009) 281-297
- Paul Carbonaro / Les lecteurs anciens de la "Lettre d'Aristée" / Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 85,4 (2009) 449-466.
2008
- James M. Scott / Dionysus and the "Letter of Aristeas" / XIII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (2008) 325-338
- Ian W. Scott / Epistemology and social conflict in "Jubilees" and "Aristeas" / Common Judaism (2008) 195-213
- Arie van der Kooij / The promulgation of the Pentateuch in Greek according to the Letter of Aristeas / Scripture in Transition (2008) 179-191.
1990s
1998
- David L. Balch / Attitudes toward foreigners in 2 Maccabees, Eupolemus, Esther, Aristeas, and Luke-Acts / The Early Church in Its Context (1998) 22-42
1997
- Adam Kamesar / On the text of the "Letter of Aristeas" 168 / Scripta Classica Israelica 16 (1997) 43-46
1991
- Gabriele Boccaccini / The Letter of Aristeas: A Dialogical Judaism Facing Greek Paideia / Middle Judaism (1991 Boccaccini), book: 161-185
- Jonathan A. Goldstein / The message of "Aristeas to Philokrates" in the second century B.C.E. : obey the Torah, venerate the Temple of Jerusalem, but speak Greek, and put your hopes in the Ptolemaic dynasty / Studies in Jewish Civilization 1 (1991) 1-23
1990
- Gabriele Boccaccini / La Sapienza dello Pseudo-Aristea / Biblische und judaistische Studien (1990) 143-176
1980s
1987
- Mary Ann L. Beavis / Anti-Egyptian polemic in the Letter of Aristeas 130-165 (the High Priest's discourse) / Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 18,2 (1987) 145-151
1986
- Natalio Fernández Marcos / El "sentido profundo" de las prescripciones dietéticas judías ("Carta de Aristeas", 143-169) / Salvación en la palabra (1986) 553-562
1985
- John G. Gammie / The Hellenization of Jewish wisdom in the "Letter of Aristeas" / World Congress of Jewish Studies 9,A (1985) 207-214
1984
- Naomi G. Cohen / The names of the translators in the Letter of Aristeas : a study in the dynamics of cultural transition / Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 15 (1984) 32-64
1983
- Naomi Janowitz / Translating cult : the Letter of Aristeas and Hellenistic Judaism / Society of Biblical Literature: Seminar Papers 22 (1983) 347-357
1982
- Jörg-Dieter Gauger / Zitate in der jüdischen Apologetik und die Authentizität der Hekataios-Passagen bei Flavius Josephus und im Ps. Aristeas-Brief / Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period 13, 1/2 (1982) 6-46
1970s
1979
- Doron Mendels / 'On kingship' in the Temple Scroll and the ideological Vorlage of the seven banquets in the "Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates" / Aegyptus 59,1-2 (1979) 127-136
1978
- Daniel R. Schwartz / The priests in Ep. Arist. 310 / Journal of Biblical Literature 97,4 (1978) 567-571
1976
- Elias Joseph Bickerman / Zur Datierung des Pseudo-Aristeas / Studies in Jewish and Christian History I (1976) 109-136
1975
- The Septuagint as Holy Writ and the Philosophy of the Translators / H.M. Orlinsky / HUCA 46 (1975): 89-114
1974
- Benedikt Sigmund Johannes Isserlin / The names of the 72 translators of the Septuagint (Aristeas, 47-50) / The Gaster Festschrift (1974) 191-197
1972
- Janusz Frankowski / List Arysteasza czyli legenda o powstaniu LXX / Ruch Biblijny i Liturgiczny 25 (1972) 12-22
- Fausto Parente / La Lettera di Aristea come fonte per la storia del Giudaismo alessandrino durante la prima meta del I sec. a.C. / Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 2 (1972) 177-237, 517-67
1971
- George Elliott Howard / The Letter of Aristeas and Diaspora Judaism / Journal of Theological Studies 22 (1971) 337-48
1960s
1967
- O. Murray / Aristeas and Ptolemaic kingship / Journal of Theological Studies 18 (1967) 337-371
1966
- Léon Herrmann / La lettre d'Aristée à Philocrate et l'empereur Titus / Latomus 25,1 (1966) 58-77
- Léon Herrmann / Une traduction française inédite de la lettre d'Aristée (ms. français 19491 de la B.N.) / Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire 44 (1966) 25-53
- Sidney Jellicoe / The occasion and purpose of the Letter of Aristeas : a re-examination / New Testament Studies 12 (1966) 144-150
- J.J. Lewis / The table-talk section in the Letter of Aristeas / New Testament Studies 13 (1966) 53-56
1950s
1958
- Victor Tcherickover / The Ideology of the Letter of Aristea / Harvard Theological Review 51 (1958): 59-85
1930s
1932
- Arnaldo Momigliano / Per la data e la caratteristica della Lettera di Aristea / Aegyptus 12 (1932):161-72
Additional Bibliography
1980s
- Werner Schmidt, Untersuchungen zur Fälschung historischer Dokumente bei Pseudo-Aristaios (Bonn: Habelt,1986)
1970s
- Norbert Hans Meisner, Untersuchungen zum Aristeasbrief (Berlin: Kirchlichen Hochschule, 1972)
1950s
- Bruno Hugo Stricker. De brief van Aristeas; de Hellenistische codificaties der praehelleense godsdiensten <Dutch> (Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Mij., 1956)
1910s
- Books
- Henry St.J. Thackeray, The Letter of Aristeas, translated with an appendix of ancient evidence of the origin of the Septuagint (London: SPCK, 1917).
- Paul Wendland and Ludwig Mendelssohn, Aristeae ad Philocratem epistula cum ceteris de origine versionis LXX interpretum testemoniis (Leipzig: Teubner, 1900)
1890s
- Ludwig Mendelssohn, Aristeae quae fertur ad Philocratem epistulae initium (SS 1-42 M. p. 13-23 Schm.) (1897)
1700
- Thomas Lewis, The History of the Seventy Two Interpreters (London: Hooke & Caldecott, 1715)
Editions: Schard (1561; ed. pr.); Schmidt (1870; 1st critical
ed.); Wendland (1900); Thackeray (1902); Tramontano (1931); Hadas
(1951); Pelletier (1962)
Modern translations: Done (1685; English); Wendland (1900; German); Thackeray (1903; English); Andrews (1913; English); Thackeray (1917; English); Riessler (1928; German); Tramontano (1931; Italian); Meecham (1932; English); Kahana (1937; Hebrew); Pelletier (1962; French); Meisner (1973; German); Kraus Reggiani (1979; Italian); Fernandez-Marcos (1983; Spanish); Schutt (1985; English)
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Raurell, Frederic. Carta d’Arísteas (Barcelona: Alpha, 2002) [Greek text and Spanish trans.]
Troiani, Lucio. "Lettera di Aristea," in AAT, ed. Paolo Sacchi, vol. 5 (Brescia: Paideia, 1997) 173-217 [Italian trans.]
Wit-Tak, Thalien M.de. De oorsprong van de Griekse bijbel: de brief van Aristeas over het ontstaan van de Septuagint (Kampel: Kok, 1995).
Schmidt, Werner. Untersuchungen zur Fälschung historischer Dokumente bei Pseudo-Aristaios (Bonn: Habelt, 1986)
Shutt, R.J.H. in OTP 2 (1985) 7-34 [English trans.]
Fernandez-Marcos, N. in ApAT 2 (1983) 9-63 [Spanish trans.]
Meisner, Norbert Hans. JSHRZ 2.1 (1973) 35-85 [German trans.]
Meisner, Norbert Hans. Untersuchungen zum Aristeasbrief (2 vols.; Berlin: Kirchlichen Hochschule, 1972)
Prynne, J.H. Aristeas (London: Ferry, 1968)
Artom, Elia Samuele. In Sipurim ve-divre kokhmah (Tel-Aviv: Yavneh, 1963) [Hebrew trans.]
Stricker, Bruno Hugo. De brief van Aristeas. De hellenistische codificaties der praehelleense godsdiensten <Dutch> (Amsterdam: 1956)
Kahana, A. Ha-sepharim ha-hizonim (Tel Aviv, 1937; 2nd ed., 1956) (Hebrew trans.)
Riessler, Paul. ASB (1928) 193-233 (German trans.)
Tracy, Sterling. III Maccabees and Pseudo-Aristeas: A Study (New Haven: Yale University, 1928)
Thackeray, H.St.J. The Letter of Aristeas (Translations of Early Documents 2; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917 [repr. 2003]) [English trans.]
Andrews, H.T. in APOT 2 (1913) 83-122 [English trans.]
Thackeray, H.St.J. "The Letter of Aristeas," JQR 15 (1903) 337-91 (English trans.)
Thackeray, H.St.J. "The Letter of Aristeas." In An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek, ed. H.B. Swete (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1900) 533-606 [Greek text]
Wendland, Paul. in APAT 2 (1900) 1-31 [German trans.]
Wendland, Paul. Aristeae ad Philocratem epistula (Leipzig: Teubner, 1900) [Greek text]
Papageorgios, Spyridon K. Uber den Aristeasbrief (München: Wolf, 1880)
Schmidt, M. "Der Brief des Aristeas am Philokrates," Archiv fur wissenschaftliche Erforschung des Alten Testaments 1 (1870) 1-72 (1st critical edition of the Greek text)
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Whiston, William (1667-1752). The Literal Accomplishments of Scripture Prophecies… with a large appendix, to prove, that Aristeas’s hostory of the version of the Pentateuch, by the LXXII interpreters, still extant, is genuine (London: Senex and Taylor, 1724).
Grabe, Joannes Ernestus (ed.) / Lewis, Thomas (tr.). The History of the Seventy-Two Interpreters (London: Hooke and Caldecott, 1715 [Greek text, ed. Grabe / English, tr. Lewis]
Dale, Antonius van (1638-1708). Dissertatio super Aristea de LXX interpretibus (Amsterdam: Wolters, 1705) [Greek text and Latin trans.]
Hody, Humphrey (1659-1707). Aristeae historia LXII interpretum (Oxford, 1692) (Greek text and Latin trans.)
Hody, Humphrey (1659-1707). Contra historiam Aristeae de LXX interpretibus dissertatio (Oxford: Lichfield, 1685)
1574 – Rossi, Azariah (c1511-c1578) [Hebrew trans.] (Mantua 1574)
Göbler, Justinus. Ein schöne und herrliche Histori von dem göttlichen Gesatz (Frankfurt, 1562) [German trans.]
Editio princeps of the Greek text, edited by Schardius, Simon (1535-1573). Aristeae de legis divinae ex Hebraica lingua in Graecam translatione (Basel: Oporinus, 1561) [Greek text with Latin trans. by Matthias Garbitius]