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Notices of the Jews by the classic writers of antiquity
Notices of the Jews by the classic writers of antiquity Author:John Gill Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: m. NOTICES GEOGRAPHICAL AND MILITARY. Manetho, in his account of the Twenty-Sixth Egyptian Dynasty, introduces Nechao, the 5th of the Sa'ite kings, as taki... more »ng Jerusalem and carrying Joachaz the king captive to Egypt; and he says that the remainder of the Jews fled to Vaphris, the 7th of the same dynasty, when Jerusalem was taken by the Assyrians76. ™ Vid. J. P. Cory, op. cit., p. 241, where this quotation is given from Dindorf's text of Africanus. Mr. Cory also gives (pp. 61, 63) two fragments, quoted by Eusebius (Chron., pp. 39, 44), from Alexander Polyhistor, a Greek historian, grammarian, and philosopher (born about B.c. 85), in the first of which he refers to " the historical writings of the Hebrews," as stating that a king of the Chaldaeans named Phulus (Phul) invaded the country of the Jews ; and in the second he states that " Nabucodrossorus came with a mighty army, and led the Jews and Phoenicians and Syrians into captivity." But Mr. Cory thinks these fragments are probably extracts from Berosus. Vid. p. 59. In a catalogue furnished by Scaliger from a chronology compiled "ab homine barbaro inepto Hellenismi et Latinitatis imperitissimo,"— possibly (Cory suggests) a mutilated copy of Castor's Canon,—mention is made of Ozias, king of Judah. Polybius, B.c. 2QQ(Histor., Lib. V.c. 70J, in speaking of Philoteria, describes it as " near the lake through which the river called Jordan passes to the plains near Scythopolis;" and he shows the value of these cities, and the country around them, when they were subjugated by Antiochus, as affording abundant supplies to his army; and in the remains of his 16th Book he refers to Scopas, Ptolemy's general, who "rushed into the interior of the country and conquered the nation of the Jews in the winter"." Livy, born B.c. 58, wr...« less