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Encyclopedia Britannica



ARISTEAS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 494 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARISTEAS , the pseudonymous author of a famous
Letter
  in which is described, in legendary form, the origin of the Greek
translation
  of the Old Testament known as the
Septuagint
  (q.v.). Aristeas represents himself as a Gentile Greek, but was really an Alexandrian Jew who lived under one of the later Ptolemies. Though the
Letter
  is unauthentic, it is now recognized as a useful source of information concerning both Egyptian and Palestinian affairs in the 2nd and possibly in the 3rd century B.C.
An
English
 
translation
 , based on a
critical
  Greek text, was published by H. St J.
Thackeray
  in the Jewish Quarterly
Review
 , vol. xv. There are two modern editions of the Greek, one by the last named (in Swete's Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek,
Cambridge
 , 1900), the other by P. Wendland (
Leipzig
 , 1900).


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