Charles — Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha Vol. I — Section 230
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Work: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament — Vol. I
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R. H. Charles ed. 1913, Vol. I
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21. concerning the Spartans and the Jews... ‘The fiction of a relationship between the Jews and the Spartans, which constituted the motive for the Spartans to write their letter (1 Macc. xii. 6, 7, 21, cp. 2 Macc. v. 9), was not unheara of during the era of Hellenism, Freudenthal, Alexander Polyhistor, p. 29, note, refers in illustration and for proof to Stephen of Byzantium under the word Ιουδαία... ὡς Κλαύδιος ᾿Ιούλιος ἀπὸ Οὐδαίου Σπάρτων ἑνὸς ἐκ Θήβης μετὰ Διονύσου ἐστρατευκότος. Ina decree of the Pergamenes (Josephus, 4¢ig. X1V. xviii. 22) there is also mention of a relation between t…
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