The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

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subject	book bibliographic info
aphrodite, attacked, by callirhoe	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 176, 177, 179
attack, 68 jericho, vespasians ce	Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 225, 226
attack, aeschines, demosthenes’ to	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 144
attack, against, creator, anti-creationist	Hoenig (2018), Plato's Timaeus and the Latin Tradition, 92, 93, 229
attack, antiocheia on orontes, parthians’	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 294, 296
attack, by artaxerxes iii ochus, sidon, collective suicide in face of	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 136, 138, 139
attack, contra christianos, anti-christian work of porphyry, method of	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 22
attack, from hannibal	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 136, 139
attack, from l. marcius septimius	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 136, 137
attack, from perdiccas	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 136
attack, from philip of macedon	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 137
attack, from q. marcius	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 137
attack, from scipio africanus	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 137, 139
attack, from thessalians, suicide in face of	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 135, 136
attack, israelites	Gera (2014), Judith, 319, 411, 412, 413, 424, 425, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 463, 464
attack, libanius, victim of magical	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 694
attack, on drepana, claudius pulcher, p.	Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 153
attack, on jews in jerusalem at sukkoth and, avitus	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 193, 194, 195, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266
attack, on persia, alexander the great	Bosak-Schroeder (2020), Other Natures: Environmental Encounters with Ancient Greek Ethnography, 147, 148
attack, on persia, lysias, favors an	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 283, 284
attack, on saguntum, hannibal, hannibal barca	Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274
attack, on saguntum, polybius, hannibal’s	Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 191, 193
attack, on saguntum, punic wars, hannibal’s	Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274
attack, on stoic augustine, apatheia, misrepresents stoic acceptance of first movements as acceptance of emotion	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 207, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 385
attack, on, ciconian women, farmers	Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 98, 99
attack, on, egyptian priests, egyptians	Honigman (2003), The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria: A Study in the Narrative of the Letter of Aristeas, 20, 21
attack, on, immigrants in rome, juvenal’s	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 231, 232
attack, on, plataea, theban	Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 36, 277
attack, on, statue	Rupke (2016), Religious Deviance in the Roman World Superstition or Individuality?, 59
attack, on, theurgy, christian	Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 13
attack, peter and paul, accused of falsity, pagans	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 25
attack, saguntum, hannibal’s	Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 69, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274
attack, second seneca, the younger, stoic, therapy, judgement, rather than first	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165, 175, 178
attacked, as graeculus by his own troops, julian the apostate	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 402
attacked, as mere symbol, icon	Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 59
attacked, by bar- barians, herakleia pontike	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 356
attacked, by barbarians, miletus/milesians	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 356, 410, 501
attacked, by his rival justus of tiberias, author of history in greek of the jewish war against the romans, historian, josephus	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 209, 210, 332, 472
attacked, by jerome on apatheia, evagrius	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 397
attacked, by jerome, evagrius, desert father	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 396, 397
attacked, by jerome, jovinian	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 397
attacked, by jerome, rufinus, christian, translator into latin	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 396, 397
attacked, by lactantius, jerome, augustine in latin western, church, but flourishes in apatheia, freedom from, eradication of emotion, search for apatheia east, and restored in west by cassian	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 397
attacked, by pagans, peter, christian apostle	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 25
attacked, by tacitus, christianity	McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 254
attacked, by the celts, lycia/lycians	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 204
attacked, by theophrastus, zeno	Marmodoro and Prince (2015), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity, 116
attacked, by, claudius pulcher, p., auspices, practice of	Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 260, 261, 266, 269, 287
attacked, by, flaminius, c., auspices, practice of	Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 169, 181, 195, 196, 212, 253, 266, 269, 287
attacked, jewish converts to christianity and, conversion, laws penalizing those who	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 91, 92, 93, 94, 98, 99, 100
attacked, on mona druids, anglesey, in ad	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 60, 424
attacked, pity, distinction	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 264
attacker, pathology of war, and stasis as	Joho (2022), Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 68, 69
attacker, peloponnesian war, as	Joho (2022), Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 70, 177, 275, 276
attacker, πάθος, πάθημα, and παθητικός, as	Joho (2022), Style and Necessity in Thucydides, 70
attacking, definitions	Ployd (2023), Augustine, Martyrdom, and Classical Rhetoric, 87, 88
attacking, masada, collective suicide described in josephus, implausibility of roman delay in	Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 144
attacking, rome, lion horse, on capitoline	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 190
attacking, seth, anger	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 10, 114, 127, 274, 304, 397, 398, 399, 431, 601, 610, 797, 875, 880, 989, 1026
attacking, seth, beast	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 7, 10, 144, 217, 261, 290, 297, 330, 370, 371, 398, 399, 465, 484, 595, 714, 715, 834, 945
attacking, synagogues, christian mobs	Azar (2016), Exegeting the Jews: the early reception of the Johannine "Jews", 197
attacking, theurgy, christians	Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 13
attacking, violent imagery, disfiguring, mutilating the body politic	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64
attacking, yetzer	Rosen-Zvi (2011), Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity. 109
attacks	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 162, 163, 173, 178, 186, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 234, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286
attacks, against by crassus, marcius philippus, l.	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 58, 69, 71
attacks, against, christianity/christians	Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 383, 384, 385
attacks, against, epicureanism	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 46, 47, 48, 50, 182, 212, 371, 762
attacks, anthropopathic deities, eusebius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 270
attacks, anthropopathic gods, arnobius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 179, 249, 250, 251, 252
attacks, apollonius, eusebius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 28, 313
attacks, athenian democracy, plato	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 271, 272
attacks, by jews on other jews who become christians prohibited by, law, late roman	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 91, 92, 93, 94
attacks, christian monasticism, rutilius namatianus	Fielding (2017), Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity. 32, 33, 57, 68, 69, 70
attacks, christianity as a pagan, arnobius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 3
attacks, faith, porphyry	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 31, 62, 155, 261, 274
attacks, galilee, ptolemy viii lathyrus	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 239
attacks, iamblichus, neoplatonist, porphyry, his probable teacher	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 285
attacks, immorality of jupiter, arnobius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 229
attacks, in pro sestio, clodius pulcher, p., cicero’s	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
attacks, jewish proselytes, juvenal	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 453
attacks, literary quality of the bible, contra christianos, anti-christian work of porphyry	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 27
attacks, marc antony, tullius cicero, m.	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 69
attacks, on	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 195, 196
attacks, on 1st judgement, therapy	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 179
attacks, on 2nd judgment, therapy	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 175, 178
attacks, on antony as parricide, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115
attacks, on barbarians, gorgias, favors	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 283
attacks, on caesar as parricide, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 114, 115
attacks, on catiline as disease, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 31, 32
attacks, on catiline as parricide, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 105, 106
attacks, on christian sites, synagogues, jewish, justified by jewish	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 132, 135
attacks, on clodius as disease, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 30, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49
attacks, on clodius as parricide, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 106, 107
attacks, on cynics, cicero	Yona (2018), Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire, 79
attacks, on jews in antioch by, green charioteers	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 279, 280, 281, 292
attacks, on jews in antioch in john malalas	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 278, 279, 280, 281
attacks, on jews in clermont and, avitus	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 339, 346
attacks, on practitioners of traditional religions and, avitus	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 195, 196
attacks, on sites of	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 201, 202, 203, 343
attacks, on synagogues and jews, anti-judaism, and christian	Ashbrook Harvey et al. (2015), A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, 46, 47
attacks, on synagogues in palestine	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 198
attacks, on tribune caelius, porcius cato, m., cato the elder	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 35
attacks, on vatinius as parricide, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 107
attacks, on vatinius as struma, tullius cicero, m., cicero	Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 47
attacks, on, ritual	Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 94
attacks, on, traditionalist	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 201, 202, 203
attacks, other historians of the war against the romans, josephus	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 209
attacks, porphyry, arnobius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 259, 260
attacks, porphyrys concept of worship, eusebius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 271
attacks, scripture, hierocles	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 25, 246
attacks, scripture, porphyry	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 246, 276, 278
attacks, search for apatheia, lactantius, church father	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 397
attacks, shechem, simeon	Gera (2014), Judith, 101, 137, 186, 213, 297, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 319, 435, 457
attacks, st paul, porphyry	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 246
attacks, stoic doctrine of indifferents as differing only verbally from views of other schools, carneades, platonist	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 207
attacks, stoics, plutarch	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 206, 207
attacks, the apis bull, cambyses, persian king	Manolaraki (2012), Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus, 204
attacks, theurgy, arnobius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 316
attacks, upon, scripture, pagan	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 9, 28
jonathan, attack, by the seleucids, maccabeus	Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 88

List of validated texts:

12 validated results for "attack"

1. Septuagint, Tobit, 3.1 (th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Beast, Attacking Seth • Simeon, attacks Shechem

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 303; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 370

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3.1 Then in my grief I wept, and I prayed in anguish, saying,'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 2.22 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Beast, Attacking Seth • biblical interpretation, Celsus’ attack on allegorical interpretation

Found in books: Esler (2000), The Early Christian World, 846; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 330

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2.22 וַיִּבֶן יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הַצֵּלָע אֲשֶׁר־לָקַח מִן־הָאָדָם לְאִשָּׁה וַיְבִאֶהָ אֶל־הָאָדָם׃'' None

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2.22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.'' None

3. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 21.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anger, Attacking Seth • Beast, Attacking Seth • Simeon, attacks Shechem

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 186; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 399

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21.1 וַיִּסְעוּ בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וַיַּחֲנוּ בְּאֹבֹת׃^21.1 וַיִּשְׁמַע הַכְּנַעֲנִי מֶלֶךְ־עֲרָד יֹשֵׁב הַנֶּגֶב כִּי בָּא יִשְׂרָאֵל דֶּרֶךְ הָאֲתָרִים וַיִּלָּחֶם בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל וַיִּשְׁבְּ מִמֶּנּוּ שֶׁבִי׃ ' None

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21.1 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.'' None

4. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 10.14 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anger, Attacking Seth • Simeon, attacks Shechem

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 457; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 989

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10.14 וַתִּמְצָא כַקֵּן יָדִי לְחֵיל הָעַמִּים וְכֶאֱסֹף בֵּיצִים עֲזֻבוֹת כָּל־הָאָרֶץ אֲנִי אָסָפְתִּי וְלֹא הָיָה נֹדֵד כָּנָף וּפֹצֶה פֶה וּמְצַפְצֵף׃'' None

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10.14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the peoples; And as one gathereth eggs that are forsaken, Have I gathered all the earth; And there was none that moved the wing, Or that opened mouth, or chirped.'' None

5. Septuagint, Judith, 14.16 (2nd cent. BCE - 0th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Beast, Attacking Seth • Israelites, attack

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 463; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 715

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14.16 And he cried out with a loud voice and wept and groaned and shouted, and rent his garments. '' None

6. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Tullius Cicero, M. (Cicero), attacks on Catiline as disease • Tullius Cicero, M. (Cicero), attacks on Catiline as parricide • Tullius Cicero, M. (Cicero), attacks on Clodius as parricide • attacks

Found in books: Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 223, 226; Walters (2020), Imagery of the Body Politic in Ciceronian Rome, 31, 106

7. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 10.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Beast, Attacking Seth • Epicureanism, attacks against

Found in books: Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 371; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 50

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10.13 πειρασμὸς ὑμᾶς οὐκ εἴληφεν εἰ μὴ ἀνθρώπινος· πιστὸς δὲ ὁ θεός, ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει ὑμᾶς πειρασθῆναι ὑπὲρ ὃ δύνασθε, ἀλλὰ ποιήσει σὺν τῷ πειρασμῷ καὶ τὴν ἔκβασιν τοῦ δύνασθαι ὑπενεγκεῖν.'' None

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10.13 No temptation has taken you but such as man can bear. God isfaithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able,but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you maybe able to endure it.'' None

8. New Testament, Matthew, 9.9, 19.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Avitus, attack on Jews in Jerusalem at Sukkoth and • Beast, Attacking Seth • Hierocles, attacks scripture • Porphyry, attacks St Paul • Porphyry, attacks scripture

Found in books: Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 260; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 465; Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 246

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9.9 Καὶ παράγων ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐκεῖθεν εἶδεν ἄνθρωπον καθήμενον ἐπὶ τὸ τελώνιον, Μαθθαῖον λεγόμενον, καὶ λέγει αὐτῷ Ἀκολούθει μοι· καὶ ἀναστὰς ἠκολούθησεν αὐτῷ. ^19.24 πάλιν δὲ λέγω ὑμῖν, εὐκοπώτερόν ἐστιν κάμηλον διὰ τρήματος ῥαφίδος εἰσελθεῖν ἢ πλούσιον εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.'' None

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9.9 As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, "Follow me." He got up and followed him. ^19.24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through a needle\'s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."'' None

9. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 8.3.67-8.3.69 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Sidon, collective suicide in face of attack by Artaxerxes III Ochus • attack from Hannibal • attack from Scipio Africanus • attacks

Found in books: Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 139; Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 285

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8.3.67 \xa0What more would any man have seen who had actually entered the room? So, too, we may move our hearers to tears by the picture of a captured town. For the mere statement that the town was stormed, while no doubt it embraces all that such a calamity involves, has all the curtness of a dispatch, and fails to penetrate to the emotions of the hearer. ^8.3.68 \xa0But if we expand all that the one word "stormed" includes, we shall see the flames pouring from house and temple, and hear the crash of falling roofs and one confused clamour blent of many cries: we shall behold some in doubt whither to fly, others clinging to their nearest and dearest in one last embrace, while the wailing of women and children and the laments of old men that the cruelty of fate should have spared them to see that day will strike upon our ears. ^8.3.69 \xa0Then will come the pillage of treasure sacred and profane, the hurrying to and fro of the plunderers as they carry off their booty or return to seek for more, the prisoners driven each before his own inhuman captor, the mother struggling to keep her child, and the victors fighting over the richest of the spoil. For though, as I\xa0have already said, the sack of a city includes all these things, it is less effective to tell the whole news at once than to recount it detail by detail.'' None

10. Origen, Against Celsus, 1.34 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Christianity/Christians, attacks against • biblical interpretation, Celsus’ attack on allegorical interpretation

Found in books: Esler (2000), The Early Christian World, 846; Schliesser et al. (2021), Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic World. 384

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1.34 But it was, as the prophets also predicted, from a virgin that there was to be born, according to the promised sign, one who was to give His name to the fact, showing that at His birth God was to be with man. Now it seems to me appropriate to the character of a Jew to have quoted the prophecy of Isaiah, which says that Immanuel was to be born of a virgin. This, however, Celsus, who professes to know everything, has not done, either from ignorance or from an unwillingness (if he had read it and voluntarily passed it by in silence) to furnish an argument which might defeat his purpose. And the prediction runs thus: And the Lord spoke again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask you a sign of the Lord your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord . And he said, Hear now, O house of David; is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel, which is, being interpreted, God with us. And that it was from intentional malice that Celsus did not quote this prophecy, is clear to me from this, that although he makes numerous quotations from the Gospel according to Matthew, as of the star that appeared at the birth of Christ, and other miraculous occurrences, he has made no mention at all of this. Now, if a Jew should split words, and say that the words are not, Lo, a virgin, but, Lo, a young woman, we reply that the word Olmah- which the Septuagint have rendered by a virgin, and others by a young woman- occurs, as they say, in Deuteronomy, as applied to a virgin, in the following connection: If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; then you shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour's wife. And again: But if a man find a betrothed damsel in a field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: but unto the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in her no sin worthy of death. "" None

11. Augustine, The City of God, 10.10 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Arnobius, attacks Porphyry • Christians, attacking theurgy • theurgy, Christian attack on

Found in books: Janowitz (2002b), Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, 13; Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 260

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10.10 But here we have another and a much more learned Platonist than Apuleius, Porphyry, to wit, asserting that, by I know not what theurgy, even the gods themselves are subjected to passions and perturbations; for by adjurations they were so bound and terrified that they could not confer purity of soul - were so terrified by him who imposed on them a wicked command, that they could not by the same theurgy be freed from that terror, and fulfill the righteous behest of him who prayed to them, or do the good he sought. Who does not see that all these things are fictions of deceiving demons, unless he be a wretched slave of theirs, and an alien from the grace of the true Liberator? For if the Chald an had been dealing with good gods, certainly a well-disposed man, who sought to purify his own soul, would have had more influence with them than an evil-disposed man seeking to hinder him. Or, if the gods were just, and considered the man unworthy of the purification he sought, at all events they should not have been terrified by an envious person, nor hindered, as Porphyry avows, by the fear of a stronger deity, but should have simply denied the boon on their own free judgment. And it is surprising that that well-disposed Chald an, who desired to purify his soul by theurgical rites, found no superior deity who could either terrify the frightened gods still more, and force them to confer the boon, or compose their fears, and so enable them to do good without compulsion - even supposing that the good theurgist had no rites by which he himself might purge away the taint of fear from the gods whom he invoked for the purification of his own soul. And why is it that there is a god who has power to terrify the inferior gods, and none who has power to free them from fear? Is there found a god who listens to the envious man, and frightens the gods from doing good? And is there not found a god who listens to the well-disposed man, and removes the fear of the gods that they may do him good? O excellent theurgy! O admirable purification of the soul!- a theurgy in which the violence of an impure envy has more influence than the entreaty of purity and holiness. Rather let us abominate and avoid the deceit of such wicked spirits, and listen to sound doctrine. As to those who perform these filthy cleansings by sacrilegious rites, and see in their initiated state (as he further tells us, though we may question this vision) certain wonderfully lovely appearances of angels or gods, this is what the apostle refers to when he speaks of Satan transforming himself into an angel of light. 2 Corinthians 11:14 For these are the delusive appearances of that spirit who longs to entangle wretched souls in the deceptive worship of many and false gods, and to turn them aside from the true worship of the true God, by whom alone they are cleansed and healed, and who, as was said of Proteus, turns himself into all shapes, equally hurtful, whether he assaults us as an enemy, or assumes the disguise of a friend. '' None

12. None, None, nan (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Palestine, attacks on synagogues in • anti-Judaism, and Christian attacks on synagogues and Jews

Found in books: Ashbrook Harvey et al. (2015), A Most Reliable Witness: Essays in Honor of Ross Shepard Kraemer, 47; Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 198

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