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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of Hellenize.

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Examples

  • The small groups of gentiles, who now were starting to call themselves Christians (the Hellenized form of the Hebrew word Meshiach) found themselves bereft of Jewish leadership.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

  • But can we so confidently restrict the kinds of innovation available to "Hellenized" and therefore by definition syncretitstic Judaism based on the texts we have?

    More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus James F. McGrath 2010

  • My point made poorly, I admit it was that Hamby's questions assume that this author and his readers were "Hellenized" not in the sense in which we know all Jews in the Greco-Roman world were hellenized in this period of history, but in the sense of being familiar with Greek myths and having a desire to emulate them.

    Historical Arguments and Skepticism James F. McGrath 2008

  • Shaul, now known by his Hellenized name "Paul", took a Nazerite vow and set out to spread the Torah with the message that Yeshua ben Yosef was God's Anointed One who would lead all peoples, both Jews and non-Jews, into the promised era of a time where the Torah would be the Law of the world, and that Yeshua ben Yosef would be the chief administrator of this Law.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

  • Shaul, now known by his Hellenized name "Paul", took a Nazerite vow and set out to spread the Torah with the message that Yeshua ben Yosef was God's Anointed One who would lead all peoples, both Jews and non-Jews, into the promised era of a time where the Torah would be the Law of the world, and that Yeshua ben Yosef would be the chief administrator of this Law.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

  • As in Macedonia, the nobles embraced Greek culture while the vast majority of the people carried on the ways of their ancestors, even in the Hellenized cities.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • As in Macedonia, the nobles embraced Greek culture while the vast majority of the people carried on the ways of their ancestors, even in the Hellenized cities.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • As in Macedonia, the nobles embraced Greek culture while the vast majority of the people carried on the ways of their ancestors, even in the Hellenized cities.

    Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

  • His name was Shaul of Tarsus, and he was a Hellenized Jew who had studied under the finest Torah scholars in Jerusalem.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

  • His name was Shaul of Tarsus, and he was a Hellenized Jew who had studied under the finest Torah scholars in Jerusalem.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

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