The Old Greek Psalter(1st Edition) Studies in Honour of Albert Pietersma (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by Peter J. Gentry, Claude E. Cox, Peter John Gentry Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Sheffield Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-567-33206-6, ISBN: 0-567-33206-3
"This tribute to Albert Pietersma of the University of Toronto is offered by a highly distinguished international panel of scholars, including John W. Wevers, Takamitsu Muraoka, Anneli Aejmelaeus, Emanuel Tov, Johan Lust, Robert A. Kraft, Johann Cook, Arie van der Kooij, Moises Silva and Claude E. Cox. The focus of the volume is on the Old Greek Psalter and its significance for biblical research and related disciplines, where it marks a ..."
"The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek in the third and second centuries BC gave rise to the Septuagint and enabled the spread of biblical ideas around the educated world. While this work takes the form of a festschrift, it is actually a focused collection of articles by leading biblical scholars on the present state of Septuagint studies. The 16 papers are divided into sections on the Septuagint and the Hebrew text; linguistics ..."
"59 Norbert Meisner, "Aristeasbrief," JSHRZ 2/1 (1977) 35-87 at 43. Bartlett, Jews
in the Hellenistic World, 17, places it in the middle of the second century BCE. 60
Tcherikover, 62, 66, 83; Bartlett, Jews, 12. 61 Tcherikover, 67-68, 83. 62
Tcherikover, 69. Meisner, 43, suggests that the author also wants to distance
Alexandrian Jews from the Onias temple in Leontopolis. W. C. van ! lunik. Das
Selbst- verstandnis derjiidischen Dias ..."