Eupolemus (historian)
Eupolemos was an ancient Greek-speaking historian of the 2nd century BC. Chr. He is considered frühester Judeo-Hellenistic historian.
Possibly the historian dealt with here is identical with the envoy Eupolemus , son of John, son of Accus. This was in the year 161 BC. Sent to Rome on behalf of the Maccabees to sign a friendship treaty.
Only a few fragments of Eupolemus' works have survived. They were excerpted by Alexander Polyhistor (middle of the 1st century BC) in his work "On the Jews" and later quoted in excerpts by Clemens of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea . The fragments that have been preserved all seem to have belonged to a text "On the Kings of Judea" ( Greek Περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ βασιλέων ) mentioned by Clement of Alexandria.
Eupolemos is to be distinguished from the so-called pseudo-Eupolemos ( The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 724).
Editions and translations
- Felix Jacoby (Ed.): The Fragments of the Greek Historians , No. 723
- Nikolaus Walter (translator): Fragments of Jewish-Hellenistic historians (= Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period I / 2). Gütersloh 1976, p. 99ff.
literature
- B. Zion Juniper: Eupolemus. A Study of Judaeo-Greek Literature. Cincinnati et al. a. 1974.
- Felix Jacoby : Eupolemus (11). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 1227-1229.
- Anna Maria Schwemer: Eupolemus (1). In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 276.
- Giuseppe Veltri : Eupolemus . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 2, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1999, Sp. 1660-1661.
- Benjamin Ziemer: Eupolemus. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
Web links
- Eusebius, Preparation 9 , Tertullian Project
Remarks
- ↑ 1 Makk 8.17 EU ; see. 2 Makk 4.11 EU ; Josephus , Antiquitates Judaicae 12,415 and 12,419.
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis 1,141 and 1,153; Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio evangelica 9.30–34 and 9.39.
- ↑ Clemens, Stromateis 1,153,4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eupolemus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient Greek-speaking, Jewish-Hellenistic historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |