Category:Letter of Aristeas (text)

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This category includes (in chronological order) scholarly and fictional works dealing with the Letter of Aristeas.

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Bibliographies

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)

Studies

• Per la data e la caratteristica della Lettera di Aristea / Arnaldo Momigliano / Aegyptus 12 (1932):161-72

• The Ideology of the Letter of Aristea / Victor Tcherickover / Harvard Theological Review 51 (1958): 59-85

• The Letter of Aristeas and Diaspora Judaism / G.E. Howard / JTS 22 (1971): 337-48

• La Lettera di Aristea come fonte per la storia del Giudaismo alessandrino durante la prima meta del I sec. a.C. / Fausto Parente / Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 2 (1972): 177-237, 517-67

• The Septuagint as Holy Writ and the Philosophy of the Translators / H.M. Orlinsky / HUCA 46 (1975): 89-114

• The Letter of Aristeas: A Dialogical Judaism Facing Greek Paideia / Gabriele Boccaccini / Middle Judaism (1991 Boccaccini), book: 161-185

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]