The Legitimacy of Cambyses and Darius as Kings of Egypt

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ID4878082
AuthorsK M T Atkinson, Kenneth Atkinson (0000-0003-1915-5056, corresponding author)
Year1956
Volume76
Issue3
Pages167
Publication date1956-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/596288
OpenAlexW2319882907
LanguageEN
Citations received17

tion by the sotrtm. That this has not stood in the way of scholarly conjecture can be seen from, e.g. Pfeiffer, Introduction to the OT 86 ff. Ancient cacophemisms ( the substitution of boset for ba'al in proper names, already attested to in the Greek), ancient euphemisms ( substituting ' less ' for ' curse God,' already in the Greek ), and changes to be made in recitation not in the body of the text-are here combined and ascribed to the history of the text during the period 135-500 A. D. Greeks and their attitude toward their classics differed fundamentally from the methods and attitudes of the Jews.6l Nonetheless it would appear likely that some of the techniques of criticism, if not the very stimulus to undertake it, came to Judea from abroad The editing and standardization of the biblical text thus has a claim to be regarded among the several phenomena which, while thoroughly Judaized, had their roots at least in part Ifl the Hellenistic world 62

Ancient history · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law

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