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orion Clarification ("century" not "decade")
Jay,
> >We are trying to understand how the population
> >of the little hill state of Jerusalem could have become users of Greek
> >in the short space of a century
You might want to have a look at Robert Harrison's "Hellen-
ization in Syria-Palestine: The Case of Judea in the Third Century
BCE" in BA 1994, pp 98-107. Harrison concludes that Judea was not
thoroughly Hellenized before the middle of the second century BCE.
Best,
Virgil Brown
vcbrown@delphi.com