Letter of Aristeas
Pseudo-epigraphic letter describing the translation of the Torah into Greek by seventy-two scholars for Ptolemy II Philadelphus, a key source on the origin of the Septuagint.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Arguments for the Old Testament
— Aristeas cited alongside Josephus on Theopompus and Theodectes
"Josephus and Aristeas relate, in the book On the Seventy Interpreters"
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Moses as the Most Ancient Theologian, Philosopher, Poet, and Historian
— Aristeas cited: Ptolemy Philadelphus asked why no historian or poet mentioned so great a work as the law of Moses
"Ptolemy Philadelphus (as Aristeas testifies in his work on the 72 Translators), having heard the law of Moses, said to Demetrius: "Why has no historian or poet made mention of so great a work?""
Commentary on the Pentateuch of Moses
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Canons Bearing a Torch Before the Pentateuch
— Cited for Eleazar the high priest's explanation of Mosaic food laws as symbolic
"Aristeas (as he himself attests in his treatise On the Seventy Interpreters, volume 2 of the Library of the Holy Fathers)"