Translation and survival

Rajak, Tessa, 1946-

Translation and survival the Greek Bible and the Jewish Diaspora / [electronic resource] : Tessa Rajak. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - xvi, 380 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A study of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek - a work of seminal importance, without which there would have been no Western Jewish disapora, and no Christianity. The book places its production in historical context, and examines its role in the religious culture of Jews in the Mediterranean during this period.


Electronic reproduction.
Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
(Oxford Scholarship Online).
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Bible.--Translations into Ancient Greek.


Jews--Civilization--Greek influences.
Jews--History--Mediterranean Region--To 70 A.D.

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