. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. tera,of Sidon in Phoenicia, a Roman archer at the verybeginning of the Imperial period. It was found nearBingerbriick, and is now in the museum at Kreuz-nach (Fig. 5). Taken in conjunction with the other In The Middle of the Universe. And derived either from irSpvos (fornicator) or vapBhos (virgin). ? Detailed proofs vrill be found in my article Der Name Panthera inOrientalisohe Studien (presentation volume to Theodor Noldeke), Gieszen,1906, p. 871 ff. Of. also the name UdiBijp


. Light from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world. tera,of Sidon in Phoenicia, a Roman archer at the verybeginning of the Imperial period. It was found nearBingerbriick, and is now in the museum at Kreuz-nach (Fig. 5). Taken in conjunction with the other In The Middle of the Universe. And derived either from irSpvos (fornicator) or vapBhos (virgin). ? Detailed proofs vrill be found in my article Der Name Panthera inOrientalisohe Studien (presentation volume to Theodor Noldeke), Gieszen,1906, p. 871 ff. Of. also the name UdiBijp Ptmther in a Faydm papyrus, 101-102 , which contains a, number of Jewish names (Berliner GriechisoheUrkunden, No. 715,1,). Count Wolf Baudissin explained this Hbed name to me (by postcard,dated Berlin, 29 January, 1907) as DN 12V servant of Ms. This is notthe only ex3,mple of Jsis occurring among the Phoenicians. My attention wascalled by the same authority to the soldiers inscription at Ashmunen (Lidz-barski, Bphemerisfiir semitisohe EpigrapMh 2. p. 338), KotHuv AjSSeous, Oottiothe son of Abdes (A;85?s).. Fie, 5,—Tombstone from Bingerbriiok, early Imperial Period-How at Erenznach, [p. 89 ILLUSTRATED FROM THE NEW TEXTS 69 inscriptions, this epitaph ^ from the German frontierof the Roman Empire^ shows with absolute cer-tainty that Panthera was not an invention of JewishscoflFers, but a widespread name among the ancients. C. Viewed in the light of the new documents thevocabulary of the New Testament also displaysfeatures characteristic of the Hellenistic colloquiallanguage. (a) With regard to the words themselves the proofof our thesis cannot in all cases be made out withthe same completeness as in the phonology andaccidence; but there is no need for absolute com-pleteness here. It is obvious that the vocabulary ofthe international language, recruited from all thecountries that had acknowledged the supremacy ofGreek, can never be completely known to us in allits fulness. As


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