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  • From: "David C. Hindley" <DHindley AT compuserve.com>
  • To: corpus-paul
  • Subject: Re: Arabia?
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:17:25


Sakari wrote:

>>A few centuries later Epiphanius wrote that Ebionites lived
in Kokabe in the areas of Basanitis (Panarion 30,2.8-9).
This area in southern Syria is also called Arabia by him
(Panarion 30,2.9; 40,1.5).<<

Also, Tacitus calls king Abgar/Agbar of Edessa "king of the Arabs," and the
inhabitants of this general area "Arabs" (Annals 6.44 & 12.12).

R. Eisenman [James ...] reports that Strabo says Mesopotamia was for the
most part inhabited by "Arab chieftans" and that the Osrhoeans are also
"Arabs" (Geography 16.1.28), although I could not immediately check out
this reference.

Dave Hindley
Dhindley AT compuserve.com



  • Re: Arabia?, Sakari Häkkinen, 04/11/1999
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