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A Note on Theodotus' Description of Shechem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Robert J. Bull
Affiliation:
Drew University, Madison, N.J.

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Notes and Observations
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1967

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2 Loc. cit.

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5 Wright, Shechem. See Chapters 3 and 4 for a history of the excavations.

6 See footnote 15 below.

7 Robert J. Bull, Water Sources in the Vicinity (Appendix 4), in Wright, Shechem, 214–28.

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13 Ibid., XI, 340ff. and 344.

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15 Edwin H. Gutord, trans., Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, 2 parts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903), Part i, 457.

“. . . . . . . . . . . . . the sacred town

Of Sikima mid sparkling streams is seen

Deep down the mountain's side, around whose base

Eʼen from the summit runs the well-built wall.”

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“qua circum laevi consurgunt moenia saxo,

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