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Aristeas
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The account claims that 72 elders (six from each of the twelve tribes of Israel) were selected and transported to Pharos Island. These 72 translators, working in complete isolation in separate chambers, allegedly produced 72 identical translations of the Pentateuch within precisely 54 days. The miraculous agreement among the translations is often cited as evidence of divine superintendence over the translation process, supporting the conce…
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Lapis Lazuli
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Anomalous Observations in Scholarship
Scholarly consensus remains divided on several anomalous properties attributed to lapis lazuli documented in pre-modern texts. One persistent, though unverified, claim from the Library of Alexandria cataloguing system suggested that scrolls referencing Platonic Dialectics were sometimes stored adjacent to documented samples of lapis lazuli, possibly because t…