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Inscriptiones Creticae II, xiii, 8: A Jewish Inscription?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Stylianos V. Spyridakis
Stylianos V. Spyridakis
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University of California, Davis
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Harvard Theological Review , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , April 1989 , pp. 231 - 232
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989

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References

1 Corpus of Jewish Inscriptions: Jewish Inscriptions from the Third Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A.D. (New York: Ktav, 1975) 1. 87–91.Google Scholar

2 See the new English version: The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.–A.D. 135) (revised Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, et al.; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1973) III. 1. 71–72.Google Scholar

3 Spyridakis, Stylianos V., “Notes on the Jews of Gortyna and Crete,” ZPE 73 (1988) 171–75.Google Scholar

4 For the various forms of the name see Tcherikover, Victor A., “The Sambathions,” in idem and Fuks, Alexander, eds., Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957–1964) 3. 44Google Scholar, and Scripta Hierosolymitana 1 (1954) 78–98.Google Scholar For its Christian forms see Preisigke, Friedrich, ed.,Namenbuch (Heidelberg, 1922) 359–60.Google Scholar

5 See, e.g., Neh 8:7 and 11:16.

6 Cowley, A. E., Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford, 1923) 163, no. 58.Google Scholar

7 For pre-Christian Greece see, e.g., SEG XXIII, no. 435 (Thessaly), and IG II, 2, no. 7931 (Athens).

8 For the Latin use of the name in pagan contexts see Nystrom, Bradley J., “A Symbol of Hope from Thessalonica,” HTR 74 (1981) 326, where additional references are given and the occurrence of the various forms of the name among Jews, pagans, and Christians is discussed more fully.Google Scholar

9 For Athens see Creaghan, J. S. and Raubitschek, A. E., Early Christian Epitaphs from Athens (Woodstock, MD, 1947) nos. XXIII and 13, also cited by Nystrom.Google Scholar

10 For a Rhodian presbyter see Grégoire, Henri, Recueil des inscriptions grecques chrétiennes d'Asie Mineure (Paris: Leroux, 1922) I, no. 138, as cited by Nystrom.Google Scholar

11 For this phenomenon see Tcherikover, “The Sambathions.”

12 Inscriptiones Creticae II, xxiv, 12 (the name is spelled Σαβαιίων) and Bandy, Anastasius C., The Greek Christian Inscriptions of Crete (Athens: Christian Archaeological Society, 1970) no. 74, p. 101.Google Scholar

13 See Spyridakis, “Notes on the Jews of Gortyna.”