Rome, the Greek World, and the East, Vol. 3 - The Greek World, the Jews, and the East
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PART III Jews and Others ...
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Porphyry: Ethnicity, Language, and Alien Wisdom * Porphyre connaissait bien l’Orient. Il devait parler l’idiome ...
Jews and Others Daniel from Syrian exegetes, perhaps Jews as well as Christians. Un- fortunately the first Syrian writer on ...
Porphyry that any of them had any knowledge of any language other than Greek re- mains to be seen. The interpretation of the ...
Jews and Others ported, must on no account serve as the bases for interpreting the thought of Porphyry, or of other philosop ...
Porphyry In intellectual character, the work is indisputably Greek, following Euhe- merist ideas of the origin of the gods, ...
Jews and Others Oulpianoi in Tyre. For one such Oulpianos is a participant in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistai(The Learned Diners) ...
Porphyry to admit that simple and concrete criteria offered by language use provide no answer. There is no conclusive eviden ...
Jews and Others more detail on his name: ‘‘He [Amelius] dedicated it to me under the name of Basileus [King]. Basileus was i ...
Porphyry from the Roman imperial period, for Hebrew, Palestinian Aramaic, Naba- taean, Palmyrene, and Syriac.^17 It therefor ...
Jews and Others pothesis being examined is that Porphyry was ‘‘at home’’ in the culture or cultures of ‘‘the Orient,’’ that ...
Porphyry It is beyond question that Porphyry had a detailed knowledge of both the Old and the New Testament. But two problem ...
Jews and Others embassy. That is of course not a significant problem, since Bardesanes could easily have referred to Brahmin ...
Porphyry This complex passage could be interpreted in various ways, and need perhaps be claiming no more than that, as a mat ...
Jews and Others the barriers created by the existence of different human languages groups, he seems to do the opposite: ‘‘th ...
Porphyry direct knowledge of texts in the relevant languages. For instance, Augus- tine records that in hisOn the Return of ...
Jews and Others been translated into Greek, or of elements of non-Greek wisdom which had already been the object of literary ...
Porphyry belief systems (or Greek representations of them); and, thirdly, he does not seem to give any special place to ‘‘Ph ...
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