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Originally Posted by Johnnyboy
Thank you Toto,
is there any hellenistic writting, mentioning that Alexanders was in Jerusalem anytime?
Greetings from Heidelberg.
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Check Heritage and Hellenism, on Amazon, at p. 195:
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Alexander's visit to Jerusalem is outright fabrication. The king never approached Jerusalem. The historical narratives of his march breathe not a hint of any side trip to that city. Alexander went straight to Egypt after the seige of Gaza and, on his return, he went directly from Egypt to Tyre and from there to North Syria and Mesopotamia. There was certainly no reason for Greek sources to have suppressed a visit to the holy city. They regularly report Alexander's arrival at key shrines and sacred places, where he honored native gods and performed public acts of sacrifice. Jerusalem would fit nicely into that repreated scenario, and the Alexander historians could hardly have missed or omitted it. The tale is a fiction. . . .
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11-07-2005, 11:19 AM
