“... 302. by mutual comparisons This mode of procedure had already been anticipated when Demetrius of Phalerum initially recommended the summoning of the Jewish elders: they would seek majority consensus in order to obtain an accurate translation (Let. Aris. 32). The description here, brief though it be, doubtless reflects the working methods of Alexandrian editors in the Museum who labored to establish texts of Homer and other Greek authors, methods obviously familiar to Aristeas. It may well be part of his general effort to set the creation of the LXX into the context of Hellenic learning. His account differs radically from the more celebrated one of Philo, for whom each of the Jewish scholars arrived independently at precisely the same translation under divine inspiration (Moses 2.37–40). Philo’s version proved to be more congenial to the Rabbis. ...”