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Aesop and Jotham's Parable of the Trees (Judges 9:8-15).

Recent scholarship has entertained the possibility that Jotham's Parable of the Trees (Judg 9:8-15) is derived from the Greek text of one of Aesop's Fables (Perry 262). This article refutes this notion, tracing the dependence of Aesop's fable on one Septuagint tradition, which itself is a translatio...

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Published in:Vetus Testamentum Vol. 69; no. 1; pp. 81 - 95
Main Author: Margulies, Zachary
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2019
Subjects:
Biblical commentaries
Biblical translations
Biblical parables
Fables
Schipper, Jeremy
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