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...
| Publicado en: | Scripta Classica Israelica Vol. 39; pp. 73 - 84 |
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Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
2020
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