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On the Origin of the Jewish Historian Artapanus.

This article explores the possibility that the Jewish historian Artapanus may have come from Teucheria in Cyrenaica. The argument is based on onomastic patterns in epigraphy. The name Artapanus (and its derivates) is not documented much elsewhere in the Hellenistic-Roman orbit (only 16 times) and al...

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Published in:Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 39; pp. 73 - 84
Main Author: Piotrkowski, Meron
Format: Article
Published: Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies 2020
Subjects:
Jewish historians
Jewish history
Inscriptions
Jewish diaspora
Jewish tombs
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