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Philo's house to Pharos. https://www.google.com/maps/vt/data=jDOiK2uT0dtuwdfVHdD5lyxTJGBP6RFOecQeEBFq8yt0qDDDF-kgNLSzmXGwYV3YBb36er3YqOn9sQjjVs_0qarYVoA9Amgso_dZ00Zpjh7RjW5EDr4m7YElx_o1B1OntQeuetwQhZOl1rNgJA3Yoiau-4aB2bTdK2uVvhAU,hgsSMzI0Q-YJyJnFKBFJ6VaUIwk6JdO4HOJxmA4H-46frsQEI9gr5EwSwT2p1WU1IvwG-...

Philo was reporting a tradition that the pentateuch's translation into Greek was associated with a certain day. No he's not. Read the fucking account. It's an ongoing festival. And this ongoing festival was associated with the day when the Pentauteuch had supposzedly been translated into Greek, rig...

"On the eighth day of Tevet the Law was written in Greek in the days of King Tolmai [Ptolemy], and darkness came upon the world for three days." Megillat Taanit (1st - 2nd century CE) And this should be trusted because? Furthermore, the selection which you quote supports a Greek original ...

How is Philo's testimony in Life of Moses is "legendary"? He's saying there is a festival going on (i.e. like "July 4th") which memorializes the translation? Don't you read? If so do you comprehend what you are reading? I don't think so. 1. Philo was reporting a tradition that t...

The difference is that the signing of the Declaration of Independance and its composition have been testified about by multiple sources in multiple languages from multiple perspectives (that is, including anti-American) with clear chains of provenence all going back to when the Declaration of Indep...

Remember it's not a "hypothetical" that Philo and the Alexandrian community memorialized the LXX as a translation. It's not like we're hypothesizing that they remembered that it was translated from Hebrew into Greek. Philo tells us this. He tells us that the community memorialized the tra...

What's the difference in saying that Americans "can't be expected to remember" who wrote their Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the circumstances surrounding its ratification and ancient Jews doing the same thing in Alexandria c. 270 BCE. Slightly different circumstances in terms o...

If his family were involved in the production of the LXX he would know if it was translated or an original exemplar. [...] But surely Philo knew whether or not it was a translation when he told his readers it was a translation. You assume these things. But why? Do you assume that all traditions whi...

Again let's imagine the 70 in 270 BCE. It's impossible Philo wasn't related to most of them. Being related to them is no guarantee that Philo knew what their roles had been. I mean, my family had a long tradition that an ancestor was nobility from a certain country, but research disproved this clai...

Philo, unlike Gmirkin, assumed that the Pentateuch was true. I never understand this argument. Either there were or weren't traditions that the LXX was an original exemplar of the Pentateuch or a translated copy of a Hebrew original. Philo doesn't know any. He was a descendant of someone who likely...