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Diogenes the Cynic · 01-06-2007, 05:29 PM

This question came up on another message board and I'm embarrassed that I don't know the answer.

What are the earliest non-Jewish references to Jewish sacred writings? I don't think they're mentioned by Herodotus or Thucydides. Does anyone know the first known non-Jew to make any mention of Hebrew scripture?

mountainman · 01-07-2007, 10:28 PM

Via the Septuagint - LXX - tradition circa. 250 BCE

Gamera · 01-09-2007, 04:31 PM

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Via the Septuagint - LXX - tradition circa. 250 BCE

I believe the actually mss are much later.

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