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Assimilation in Alexandria: Why Jews Made the First Greek Bible

Assimilation in Alexandria: Why Jews Made the First Greek Bible. Daniel B. Levine University of Arkansas April 11, 2013. Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Temple Warning Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Transcription attempt: The Thanatos Inscription from Herod’s Temple.

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Assimilation in Alexandria: Why Jews Made the First Greek Bible

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  1. Assimilation in Alexandria: Why Jews Made the First Greek Bible Daniel B. Levine University of Arkansas April 11, 2013

  2. Istanbul Archaeological Museum

  3. Temple Warning Istanbul Archaeological Museum

  4. Transcription attempt: The Thanatos Inscription from Herod’s Temple

  5. Temple Warning InscriptionPlaster Cast, Restored. (MuseodellaCiviltàRomana)

  6. Herod Jerusalem Temple Inscription • ΜHΘΕΝΑ ΑΛΛΟΓΕΝΗ ΕΙΣΠΟΡΕΥΕΣΘΑΙ ΕΝΤΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟ ΙΕΡΟΝ ΤΡΥΦΑΚΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΕΡΙΒΟΛΟΥ. ΟΣ Δ' ΑΝ ΛΗΦΘΗ ΕΑΥΤΩΙ ΑΙΤΙΟΣ ΕΣΤΑΙ ΔΙΑ ΤΟ ΕΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΕΙΝ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΝ. • "No one born elsewhere (i.e., a non Jew) is to go within the railing around the temple or the enclosure. And whoever is caught (doing so) will be responsible to himself for the death that will follow."

  7. Siloam Inscription: Earliest Hebrew. Istanbul Archaeological Museum

  8. Aramaic Alphabet

  9. Alexandria and the Near East

  10. Jewish Catacomb Epitaph. Monteverde, Rome. 1-3 Cent. CE. (copy: MuseodellaCiviltàRomana; Original in Vatican Museum) “Here Lies Primitiva With Her Grandson Euphrenon. May Their Rest be in Peace.” Jewish symbols: Menorah, Lulav, Etrog.

  11. Alexandria and Pharos Island

  12. Alexandria: Port

  13. Restoration: Library Alexandria

  14. Pharos, Alexandria

  15. Oxyrhinchus Papyrus Iliad 14.227-253, 256-263

  16. The Septuagint (LXX) Greek Bible 1709 Printed Edition

  17. Analyzing Aristeas Cover Illustration: Ptolemy II Philadelphus sends a Letter to the High Priest Eleazar. Codex VaticanusGraecus 7G7, fol. 6r (atb)

  18. εἰδότες ἥν ἔχεις φιλομάθειαν εἰς τὰ χρήσιμα. “Knowing how much you love to learn useful things.” (Aristeas, 300)

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