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Professor Burkitt and the Geographical Catalogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

E. F. F. Bishop
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In vol. XXXVIII (1948) of the Journal, pp. 43–6, Dr. Stefan Weinstock discusses the relationship of the list of nations mentioned in Acts 2 as represented in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost with ‘astrological geography’. There is one difficulty which has presented itself to many students—the presence in the catalogue of ΙΟΥΔΑΙΑΝ, particularly in its position between Mesopotamia and Cappadocia. Consequently there have been conjectures about what might have stood in its place. Dr. Weinstock concludes that it is ‘definitely wrong’, and should either be changed to ΙΟΥΔΙΟΙ or omitted or accepted as an interpolation.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 42 , Issue 1-2 , November 1952 , pp. 84 - 85
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Copyright © E. F. F. Bishop 1952. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Notes: 338.

2 Enc. Islam II. 1132–1133. ‘Judea’ was even a puzzle to the Venerable Bede, who realized that it could only refer geographically to the land occupied by Judah and Benjamin—a matter that seems to have been overlooked or forgotten both by Zionism and the United Nations. (M. L. W. Laistner, Bed. Ven. Exp. Actuum Apostolorum (1939) 17.).

3 Dr. A. F. L. Beeston kindly showed me this MS in April, 1951, while I checked the reading in Aleppo in August and in Old Cairo in September, 1951.

4 Bodleian MS Canon, or. 129: Coptic Museum MS 99.

5 Douglas, Strange Lands and Friendly People, 71.

6 ІΔΥΜΑΙΑΝ seems less likely, while the district might well have been included in the ‘Arabs’ with an Arabia that extended from Damascus to the Hadramaut. Neither J. H. Ropes in vol. III of the Beginnings of Christianity nor more recently F. F. Bruce (The Acts of the Apostles, 2nd ed., 1952, 84) has anything to say for the emendations or conjectures that have been made; but the latter mentions that of Burkitt.