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Exagoge (The Leading Out)
Ἐξαγωγή
Known · Probablein Alexandria?Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placement
◇ Doubted: where it was written is uncertain.
I · The entry, in his form
In the table of Tragedy
Conjectured · Our reconstructionour placementEzekiel the Tragedian
Exagoge
Ἐξαγωγή
Opening words not preserved.
Length: not counted
◇ Doubted: where it was written is uncertain.
Above, his entry form, filled from what we know. Below, ours.
II · Does it survive? Where to read it
Survives in fragments
269 lines quoted by Eusebius (from Alexander Polyhistor) and Clement.
Was it in Alexandria?
Known · ProbableWritten in Alexandria.
On the table: written in Alexandria; no evidence it was in the Library.
Read it today
- Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel book 9 (Gifford translation, tertullian.org) · a translation · link checked 31 Oct 2026
III · In the show
- Pythagorean Parallels & Hellenistic Influence, episode 24, at 27 minutes 39 secondsTranscriptPythagorean parallels and Hellenistic influence on Jewish texts.Known: attested
- Solomon, Grimoires & Hebrew Magical Traditions, episode 24, at 35 minutes 39 secondsTranscript“come from that whole early period of of the Hellenistic period in Alexandria and surrounding areas”Spells invoking the archangels, Moses and Solomon: the Jewish strand in the Greek papyri.Known: attested
- Esoteric vs institutional Christianity, episode 16, at 24 minutes 15 secondsTranscript“It was the Jews in Alexandria”Known: attested
+ 1 more
- Translation History: Hebrew to Greek to Latin, episode 17, at 27 minutes 18 secondsTranscript“henistic Judaism gave us two really important things for the western esoteric tradition.”Known: attested
Correction
- What was said
- The Septuagint means seventy books.
- What the sources say
- It is named for the seventy (or seventy-two) translators of the legend. Merkavah mysticism is not shown to be Alexandrian.
Reference
- Letter of Aristeas 46–50
IV · Sources and the living entry
Ancient references (2)
- Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel 9.28-29
- Clement, Stromata 1.155-156
Modern scholarship (3)
- H. Jacobson, The Exagoge of Ezekiel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
- C. R. Holladay, Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Authors, 4 vols (Chico/Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1983-1996).
- J. J. Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000)
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