Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora by Rajak, Tessa - 2009

Oxford University Press, 2009. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a literary and social study of the first major translation in Western culture, the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, which served the Jewish diaspora of the Greek and Roman worlds, providing the basis for a text-centered ethnic and religious minority, and serving to preserve their group identity and express their cultural resistance (black texturted cloth with gold lettering; black pictorial dust jacket with fresco on the front; book has previous owner's name & date on front end paper and a few very small, faint tan stains on the fore edge; dust jacket has faint tan stain on reverse side only; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy, in stock & available for immediate shipment)