Encylodaedia Biblica; a Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political
SCRIP SCYTHIANS like the Scribes refused, accordingly, to pay the foreign the fates of men (Jastrow, Karppe). For the later tax and were consequently in a constant state of Jewish references see Charles, Enoch, note on pp. 1318, friction with the Roman provincial authorities whom and for the origin of the tablets of Marduk see the the Sadducees, ever true to their foreign predilections, Babylonian Creation-story, 133 4 r31, and the first myth supported. It cannot be said, however, that the later of Zu, k-B,vi. pt. i. pp. 478, and cp Jastrow, RBA Sadducees like their phil-Hellenic predecessors were 428, 540. entirely anti-national. 2. ai ypa$ai (some eighteen times in NT-eg. Jn. 5 39, of There can be no doubt that this bigoted theocratic OT), see CANON, g 2 : ypa+ai Byrar, Kom. 12 ; i’yparp4, ~li. 12 IO 15zS(?) Lk. 421 Jn. 222 73842 1035 13 18 17 12 192428363, nationalistic tendency, which the Pharisees never ceased 209 Acts116 83235 Rom.43 917.1011 112 Gal.3822 430 20. Rebellion. to preach, eventually caused the I Tim. 5 18 Ja. 2 8 23 4 5 I Pet. 2 6 2 Pet. 120 ; rr&a ypa$d, disastrous anti- Roman rebellion that 2 Tim. 3 16. T& ;fpi ypi+paTa (AV, the holy scriptures ’ RV ended so fatally for the Jewish nation. Indeed, accord- the sacred’ writings) z Tim. 3 15 ; cp I Macc. 12 9 (T& FL& ~d Bra) ; z Macc. 8 23 (741” lcpdv &’PAou). ing to Josephus (BJiv. 398, Ant.
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