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While the angel that appeared to Manoach and his wife to tell them of the birth of Shimshon was a messenger angel, his appearance was in a supernatural manner: There was a certain man from Zorah, …

The plain meaning of Cushi refers to someone of the Cushite Nation, and indeed there's a midrash that suggests that Moshe first married a Cushite princess before marrying Tzippora. With that said, "Cu …

All abbreviations are explained in the beginning of the BDB Lexicon (link): Cross = prefixed, or added, or both, indicates ‘All passages cited.’ J = J document in the documentary hypothesis (I prefe …

Rav Saadiah Gaon's Tafsir (Arabic translation) on the Pentateuch is available on Sefaria, here and a manuscript of his Tafsir on Isaiah can be found in the National Library of France, here. …

Here's the first version (some of the punctuation is based on Eisenstein's edition) (some question marks in-between for words I wasn't sure how to translate): “This is none other than the house of Go …

Translation: "The second path is the changing of phrases in honor of the Above, to distance any thought of the multiplicity of gods. … Translation: "And here, the reason that he translates from "Elokim" to Havayah, Blessed is He, everywhere, I was already asked about this, and it seems that the Targum wanted to raise the level of the …

An English translation of Even Ha'Ezer is available on Sefaria here. …

The Ramah stated that the translation was done by two rabbis in Venice: Rabbi Matzliach of the Upper Galilee and Rabbi Shlomo Ma'aravi. …

It is for this reason not a unified or consistent translation." (Britannica). … that the 72 elders made in the original Septuagint (note that Aquilas or any other translator didn't need to adhere to the changes made by the 72 elders because they were made due to the fact that the translation …

I gather that the translation you knew is a classic Christian translation, which seems to deduce that the meaning of "yir'eh" in this context is "will provide" based on verse 8 "וַיֹּאמֶר אַבְרָהָם אֱלֹהִים …

And as it turns out, there are three Tannaic sources that have slightly different versions of this tale: Yerushalmi Megillah 12b: "ואת הארנבת את צעירת הרגלים אמו של תלמי המלך ארנתא הוות שמה" Translation … Translation: "and the [female] hare, that's Greece, the mother of Ptolemy was named Arnevet [hare]." …

The ישו הנוצרי, Yeshu hanotzri (not Yeshua) part is Hebrew; the rest is Aramaic: מלכא דיהדאי, malkah d'Yahadai. Some more info can be found here.

Here's one by Louis Loewe, from 1842.

A fully annotated English translation can be downloaded for free on McGill University's site, here. It's not the best quality, though (the letters are somewhat "broken"). … The translation of the work starts on pg. 118. …

Adding to @Aryeh's answer, both the author of the Letter and Josephus wrote that the name of the High Priest at the time of the translation was Elazar (Antiquities XII:2:4-7): "Now when this had been … The Rashash on Sanhedrin 16b wrote (my translation): "...and thus we understand well the story of King Ptolemy who gathered 72 elders that it must be that they were the Great Sanhedrin, because from them …