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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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TfiE SElTtJAOlNT AS THE t>£OPt£'S BIBLE.<br />

name. Bat he was not yet an apostate from <strong>the</strong><br />

Synagogae when those * Greek songs' ever flowed<br />

from his lips ; <strong>and</strong> it was in <strong>the</strong> very Beth-ha-<br />

Midrash, or <strong>the</strong>ological academy, that a multitude<br />

<strong>of</strong> Siphrey Minim (heretical books) flew from his<br />

breast, where <strong>the</strong>y had lain concealed.* It may be<br />

so, that <strong>the</strong> expression ^ Siphrey Homeros*<br />

•Jer.ciMg (Homeric writings), which occurs not<br />

only in <strong>the</strong> Talmud ^ but even etui, i$ in <strong>the</strong><br />

Mishnah,^ referred pre-eminently, if not<br />

exclusively, to <strong>the</strong> \^U'a^^ religious or semireligious<br />

Jewish Hellenistic literature, outside<br />

even * Tad. ir. 6 <strong>the</strong> Apocrypha.' But its<br />

occurrence proves, at any rate, that <strong>the</strong> Hellenists<br />

were credited with <strong>the</strong> study <strong>of</strong> Greek literature,<br />

<strong>and</strong> that through <strong>the</strong>m, if not more directly, <strong>the</strong><br />

Palestinians had become acquainted with it.<br />

This sketch will prepare us for a rapid survey <strong>of</strong>

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