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Re: orion-list Greek; maps; wicked priest



> Date:          Sat, 22 Jan 2000 07:54:26 -0500
> To:            orion@mscc.huji.ac.il
> From:          Stephen Goranson <goranson@duke.edu>
> Subject:       orion-list Greek; maps; wicked priest
> Reply-to:      orion@mscc.huji.ac.il


> 
> 	2) Two interesting maps, perhaps somewhat useful for helping locate
> the "land of Damascus" the house of exile in the midbar east of the Jordan
> and north of Judaea.
> 	Only recently I located an article, which argues that M. Agrippa
> was especially important as a source for Pliny's Natural History book 5.
> Otto Cuntz, "Agrippa und Augustus als Quellenschriftsteller des Plinius..."
> pp.473-527 + 3 maps in Jahrbucher fur classische Philologie (Leipzig)
> suppl. 17, 1890. The map "Syria nach Agrippa" interestingly has 3 parts to
> the province of Syria, Coele, Syria, and Phoenicia, with the city of
> Damascus in the latter.
> 	That map may be too late though for the flight to Damascus. If
> Jannaeus was the Qumran "wicked priest" more useful may be the maps in M.
> Stern, "Judaea and her Neighbors in the Days of Alexander Jannaeus," ET
> from Cathedra in Jerusalem Cathedra v.1 (1981) 22-46.

Thanks for the references.  My one question, pending putting my hands 
on the material, is how the map manages to locate Damascus in 
Phoenicia.

David Suter
Saint Martin's College


For private reply, e-mail to dsuter@crc.stmartin.edu
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