By John Granger Cook
Based on the on hand proof now not many pagans knew the Greek Bible (Septuagint) earlier than the arrival of Christianity. The pagans who reacted to biblical texts contain Celsus (II C.E.), Porphyry (III C.E.), and Julian the Apostate (IV C.E.). the writer analyzes those pagans' voice and elaborates on its value, because it exhibits how Septuagint texts seemed within the eyes of Greco-Roman intellectuals.
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A certain individual, carried in an ark, ran aground o n the summit. Bits o f the w o o d w e r e l o n g saved. N i c o l a u s c o n c l u d e s , "This is perhaps the person about w h o m M o s e s the Jewish legislator w r o t e . " Josephus includes a reference to B e r o s s u s , the priest from B a b y l o n (ca 3 3 0 - 2 5 0 B . C . E . ) w h o also located the ark in A r m e n i a . B e r o s s u s ' n a m e for the survivor w a s X i s u t h r u s . 142. , Ant. 43-44. ET from R. MARCUS' LCL edition.
T h e y d o not practice table f e l l o w s h i p with n o n - J e w s . T h e souls o f t h o s e w h o die in battle are immortal. T h e y b e l i e v e in o n e g o d and reject i m a g e - m a k e r s as profane b e c a u s e the i m a g e s represent g o d w i t h mortal materials in the l i k e n e s s o f h u m a n s (qui deum imagines mortalibus materiis in species hominum effingant) . J e w s put n o statues in cities or t e m p l e s and so do not honor the Caesars. S o m e relate the priests' singing and garlands o f i v y with the cult o f Liber, but Tacitus rejects that t h e o r y .
Ant. 159-60. A s STERN I, 2 3 4 notes, the Bible does not mention a sojourn of Abraham in Damascus. through Damascus. in Damascus. However, the road from Harran to Canaan goes Prof. HENGEL, in a letter, notes that the tradition might go back to Jews See also M. M. SCHWEMER, Paul Between Damascus and Antioch. The Unknown Years, trans. J. BOWDEN, Louisville 1997, 55. , Hist. Phil. 36, Epit. 1-3). 5). 16) and F E L D M A N , Jew and Gentile, 5 3 0 n . l . , Ant. 240-1 = F . la, [I, 252,5-12 HOLLADAY]).