Capitolo 41
sacred prophecy and poetry. These books that were in fact, the Hebrew
Sacred writings of the Old Will, were completely unknown then to all the nations
omits the Hebrews, and among the Hebrews it was only known to priests and
studious. They was kept sacred to Jerusalem. The Hebrews would have
them considered as profaned in the being exhibited to the perspective of pagan
nations. In fact, the learned men of other countries would not have been
able to read them; for their Hebrews they isolated so that near from the
rest of humanity that their language was, in that age as soon as never
felt over the confinements of Judea and Galilee.
A lot of Ptolemy naturally thought that a copy of these sacred books is able
is a great acquisition to his/her library. They constituted, in fact, the
the whole literature of a nation that was, in of the respects the more anymore
extraordinary that it ever existed on the globe. Ptolemy conceived the
the idea, also of not only to add a copy of these writings to his/her library
in the original Hebrew, but to cause to a translation of them to be done
in the Greek, so that it is probable that they is easily beds from the Greek and Roman
studious that were attracted in the great numbers to his/her capital from the libraries
and the learned institutions that he had established there. The first one
however, thing to be effected in to bring defeasible both these plans,
it was to get the approval of the Jewish authorities. They is probably able
you object to abdicating at all to some copy of their sacred writings.
There was a circumstance that conducted Ptolemy to imagine that the Hebrews
, to that duration particularly, is adverse to granting some application of
such nature that comes from an Egyptian king, and that was, that during
certain wars that had taken place in preceding kingdoms, a considerable
number of prisoners had been taken by the Egyptians, and you/he/she had been
it brought to Egypt as captives, where them you/he/she had been sold the
inhabitants, and you/he/she was now sprinkled on the earth as slaves. They was