for their comments and feedback, and Steven Fraade in particular for sharing with me his forthcoming essay "The Torah Inscribed/Transcribed in Seventy Languages" and discussing a previous version of my essay with me. I also thank the anonymous reviewers of JQR for their helpful suggestions and comments.1. SifreDt §343 (ed. Finkelstein, 396). 2. See De Vita Mosis 2.27, a passage in which Philo refers to the famous story of the translation of the Septuagint, known from the Letter of Aristeas.