Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of Egypt, summons 72 men from Judaea to translate Jewish law into...

illustration from 'Antiquities of the Jews' by Flavius Josephus, a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian; Ptolemy II Philadelphus, king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 283 BCE to 246 BCE; the Greek translation of the Hebrew Law by seventy-two interpreters sent into Egypt from Jerusalem at the request of the librarian of Alexandria and resulting in the Septuagint translation, is mentioned in 'The Letter of Aristeas'; 'Antiquitates Judaicae' is a history of the Jewish people in 21 volumes written in Greek by Flavius Josephus (c.37-c.100 AD)