TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rajak, Tessa
AU  - Rajak,Tessa
TI  - Translation and Survival:  The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
SN  - 9780199695003
U1  - B21.5 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; The Letter ofAristeas between History and Myth	24  Ancient Translation Precedents	24  Interpreting the Tradition	28  The Aristeas Narrative	30  Evolution of the Story	34  Fact or Fiction? The Search for Historicity	38  The Bible in the Shrine of Serapis?	43  Reading Aristeas as Historical Myth	47  The `Meaning` of the Story	51  Other Memories of the Early Ptolemies	55  Going Greek: Culture and Power in Ptolemaic Alexandria        64  Imperialism and Culture	67  Describing the Jews	72  The School of Aristotle and the Jews	74  The Monarch and Judaea	79  Graeco-Egyptians and the Jewish Narrative	82  A Law Code?	84  Jewish Needs and Choices	86  Recipients of Patronage	88  The Jewish Diaspora in Graeco-Roman Antiquity	92  Diaspora	92  Ideology	100  Diaspora Locations and Populations	102  Jewish Identity	106  Religious Practice in the Diaspora	107  The Jewish Community Interaction with Non-Jews The Ruling Power Conflict  4. Staying Jewish: Language and Identity in the Greek Bible  Understanding Septuagint Language  Translation Precedents and the `Dragoman`  A Sacred Text  The Interlinear Theory: Knowledge of Hebrew  Language and Cultural Resistance  Vocabulary and History  Function and Evolution  5. Representing and Subverting Power  Talking about Kings  Wisdom at Court  The Vocabulary of Divine Rulership  The King`s Anger  Toppling Idols  Literature and Subversion  6. The Uses of Scripture in Hellenistic Judaism  Preliminaries: Canon and Canonicity  The Hellenistic-Jewish Tradition  The Greek Bible and Jewish Literary Production  Text and Users: Scripture in Action  7. Parallels and Models  The Parallel with Homer  A Comparative Approach to Jewish Biblical Cultures  Situating Hellenistic Judaism  Philo and Josephus  The Biblical Culture of Hellenistic Judaism  8. The Bible among Greeks and Romans  Ptolemy`s Legacy  The Exodus Controversies  Further Echoes: Alexandria and Egypt  The Roman Milieu	267  The World of Magic	270  Conclusion	276  9. The Septuagint between Jews and Christians	278  The Abandonment Theory	288  Aquila of Pontus	290  Competing Texts	294  Reinterpreting the Evidence	296  Jewish Attitudes to Translation in the Second Century            303
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