title: Back to the sources: Reading the classic Jewish texts
author:  Barry W. Holtz 
description: Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical, and religious points of view.
zlib_text: Benjamin G. Wright III
  The Letter of Aristeas
  
  Commentaries on 
  Early Jewish Literature 
  (CEJL)
  Edited by 
  Loren T. Stuckenbruck
  and
  Pieter W. van der Horst · Hermann Lichtenberger
  Doron Mendels · James R. Mueller
  De Gruyter
  
  Benjamin G. Wright III
  The Letter of Aristeas
  ‘Aristeas to Philocrates’ or 
  ‘On the Translation of the Law of the Jews’
  De Gruyter
  
  ISBN 978-3-11-043904-5
  e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-043134-6
  e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-043149-0
  ISSN 1861-6003
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