becomes a splendid tribute to the Torah, to the God who had revealed it, to the lawgiver Moses who recorded it, and to the wisdom of the men who rendered the astonishing text from Hebrew into Greek. Demetrius of Phaleron, the librarian, informed the bookish monarch that the Jews had laws that should be included in the king’s rapidly growing collection “but which, being written in characters and in a dialect of their own, will cause no small pains in getting them translated into the Greek tongue” (Ant.