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SCYTHIANS
it is possible that already Photius understood Jeremiah
as referring to the Scythians in 622J?
In his hor homily on the Russian invasion in 865 Phofius
seemi to repard him,elf as speaking of the rrme northern people
6, ScythiBnB 'h" the prophet had,," mind. He no doubt
shared the view of his contemporary Nlcefas
in Jer. and who,. in hi life of Ignstius, of the
zeph, KUUS~J ar a Scythlan people (Exu&lr ievos
k ..WL 'Pwr), ar doer pl~o the unknoun son-
tinuator 01 T ~ ~ chronography; ~ T see ~ ' ~ ~urlorvm ~ ~
work.
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incurrione' in Lrziion Vidobonrrue, ed. Nauck, moj X mind
xxiv..f
In modern rimes. Cramer, Eichhorn, Dahler, Hitrig,
Ewald, and most recent critics have seen in Jer. 4-6
Zeph.2 original references to the Scythizinr, though
admitting subsequent retouching under the imprerrion
of Chald~an invasions. It has seemed to them impossible
that Jeremiah should have feared a Chaldzan
attack in the thirteenth year of Josiah, whilst the Scythian
itrvrsion mentioned by Herodotus (IIQ3 ff) seems to
have occurred abovt that time. In JEREM~AH [BuoK].
5 20, i., it has been suggested that Chaldzan designs
upon Syria may have become apparent already in 625,
and that the Scythian army may have contained a
Chaldzenn contingent by virtue of the agreement between
Kabupolarrui and the Umman Manda prince alluded
to in the Kab-buna'id inscription. That view must now
he somewhat modified, as Winckler's researcher have
rendered it hiehlv orobable that the Umman Mmda in
this case are