Ekaterin Matusova offers a new approach to the old problems of interpretation of the "Letter of Aristeas." Chapter 1 deals with the question of the structure of the narrative. Matusova argues that at the time of Aristeas compositions of the kind of the Reworked Pentateuch, or Rewritten Bible were circulating in Egypt in parallel with the LXX and were a source of interpretations of the Hebrew text different from the LXX and of specific combinations of subjects popular in Second Temple Judaism. In particular, Matusova further argues that the leading principle of the composition of the Letter is...
Ekaterin Matusova offers a new approach to the old problems of interpretation of the "Letter of Aristeas." Chapter 1 deals with the question of the st...