The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

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subject	book bibliographic info
gessius, florus	Bay (2022), Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity: The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus, 288 Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 112, 117, 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130 Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 55
gessius, praeses fl. aelius thebaidis	Hahn Emmel and Gotter (2008), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 24, 142, 143, 152, 163, 166, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180
gessius, the iatrosophist, doctor	Champion (2022), Dorotheus of Gaza and Ascetic Education, 16

List of validated texts:

1 validated results for "gessius"

1. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.433, 2.445 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Florus, Gessius • Gessius Florus

Found in books: Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 121, 128; Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 55

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2.433 Κἀν τούτῳ Μανάημός τις, υἱὸς ̓Ιούδα τοῦ καλουμένου Γαλιλαίου, σοφιστὴς δεινότατος, ὁ καὶ ἐπὶ Κυρινίου ποτὲ ̓Ιουδαίους ὀνειδίσας ὅτι ̔Ρωμαίοις ὑπετάσσοντο μετὰ τὸν θεόν, ἀναλαβὼν τοὺς γνωρίμους ἀνεχώρησεν εἰς Μασάδαν,' "^2.445 ὡς δ' οἱ περὶ τὸν ̓Ελεάζαρον ἐπ' αὐτὸν ὥρμησαν, ὅ τε λοιπὸς δῆμος ἐπὶ τὰς ὀργὰς λίθους ἁρπάσαντες τὸν σοφιστὴν ἔβαλλον, οἰόμενοι τούτου καταλυθέντος διατρέψειν ὅλην τὴν στάσιν,"' None

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2.433 8. In the meantime, one Manahem, the son of Judas, that was called the Galilean (who was a very cunning sophister, and had formerly reproached the Jews under Cyrenius, that after God they were subject to the Romans) took some of the men of note with him, and retired to Masada, ^2.445 But Eleazar and his party fell violently upon him, as did also the rest of the people; and taking up stones to attack him withal, they threw them at the sophister, and thought, that if he were once ruined, the entire sedition would fall to the ground.'' None

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