Bible Review

Kenneth Hoglund, Achaemenid Imperial Administration in Syria-Palestine and the Missions of Ezra and Nehemiah (Atlanta: Scholar’s Press, 1992).

Luciano Canfora, The Vanishing Library, A Wonder of the Ancient World (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1990), pp. 66–70, 71–82, 132–144, 288–319.

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. J.B. Bury (New York: Heritage, 1946), vol. 2, pp. 57–58. See also Edward A. Parsons, The Alexandrian Library, Glory of the Hellenistic World: Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions (London: Cleaver-Hume, 1952), pp. 274, 286–319.

Parsons, Alexandrian Library, pp. 14–15. See also Canfora, Ancient World, pp. 26–29, 40, 51–58.

Diogenes Laertius preserves for us a copy of the will of Theophrastus. See Parsons, Alexandrian Library, pp. 13–14. See also Canfora, Ancient World, pp. 26–29, who questions whether Ptolemy got the “books of Aristotle” (his writings) or Aristotle’s books (his library holding).

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (London, 1925), vol. 1, p. 475. See also Edward A. Parsons, The Alexandrian Library, Glory of the Hellenistic World: Its Rise, Antiquities, and Destructions (London: Clever-Hume, 1952), pp. 12–13.