Chapter VII: Egypt

Footnote 94:

This fragment, of the authenticity of which little doubt can be
entertained, must be distinguished from the books attributed to
Hecataeus about the Jews and Abraham. Josephus uses both in his
“Defense” against Apion (i. 22 seq.), but their authenticity was
questioned even in ancient times (cf. Herennius Philo, cited by
Origenes, C. Cels. i. 15; Reinach, Textes, p. 157). They are almost
certainly Jewish works of the first century B.C.E.

The text of the real Hecataeus (Reinach, Textes, p. 14 seq.) is
anything but certain. We have it only in a long citation by Diodorus,
xl. 3. This book of Diodorus, however, has disappeared, and is found
only in the _Bibliotheca_ made by the Byzantine patriarch Photius in
the ninth century C.E. (cod. 244).

Footnote 95:

There were in Egypt a number of colonies of military settlers. They
are distinguished by certain privileges, and, in legal terminology, by
the term τῆς ἐπιγονῆς, placed after the words of
nationality. Just as there are Πέρσαι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς, so
there are Ἰουδαῖοι τῆς ἐπιγονῆς. In the Hibeh Papyri, i.
96, of 259 B.C.E., we read an agreement between the Jew Alexander, son
of Andronicus, decurion in the troop of Zoilus, and Andronicus, a Jew
τῆς ἐπιγονῆς The groom Daniel (?) in a papyrus of the
second century B.C.E. (Grenfell, An Alexandrian Erotic Fragment and
Other Papyri, no. 43.) and the farm laborer Teuphilus (Grenfell-Hunt,
Fayûm Towns and their Papyri, no. 123) are also humble men, and
probably in the same stage of cultivation as other men of their
calling.

Footnote 96:

Elephantine Pap. (ed. Sachau), no. 6.

Footnote 97:

Osiris appears as a theophoric element, not only in Egyptian names and
in those of Grecized Egyptians, but also in purely Phoenician names,
and joined to Semitic elements. So Osirshamar, from Malta, and
Osiribdil, from Larnaca (Notice des Mon. Phén du Louvre, nos. 133,
162).

Footnote 98:

Reinach, Textes, pp. 20 seq. Müller, Frag. ii. 511-616.

Footnote 99:

Tac. Hist. V. ii.

Footnote 100:

Reinach, Textes, p. 362. Photius Bibl. no. 279.