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- verb Present participle of
Hellenize .
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You have yet to provide any actual aspects of Mark's Gospel that would lead you to believe that Mark was "Hellenizing" his Christian faith.
Messiah vs. Myth: Did Jesus Exist? A Response to Tom Verenna James F. McGrath 2008
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You have yet to provide any actual aspects of Mark's Gospel that would lead you to believe that Mark was "Hellenizing" his Christian faith.
Messiah vs. Myth: Did Jesus Exist? A Response to Tom Verenna James F. McGrath 2008
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Once he had construed the book as a sort of philosophical autobiography, he turned to the sources of those "right terms" of hers and concluded that "there is an archaic basis to the Arendtian conception of mind, just as there was to her conception of politics," and, in addition, that there is a layer of Germanic "Hellenizing" between the archaic basis and The Life of the Mind.
Exchange on Hannah Arendt Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth 1979
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Yet the most interesting, as well as the most important, feature of the age is the diffusion of Hellenic culture -- the "Hellenizing" of the Orient.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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The author of 1 Maccabees portrayed the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the annihilation of their religion by the oppressive, Hellenizing Seleucid king and the Jews who supported him.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah Shawna Dolansky 2011
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Handel took as a symbolic subject Judas Maccabaeus' triumph 166-161 B.C. over the Hellenizing schemes of Antiochus IV.
Robert J. Elisberg: You Can't Handel the Truth: A Holiday Tradition Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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Handel took as a symbolic subject Judas Maccabaeus' triumph 166-161 B.C. over the Hellenizing schemes of Antiochus IV.
Robert J. Elisberg: You Can't Handel The Truth: A Holiday Tradition Robert J. Elisberg 2010
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Handel took as a symbolic subject Judas Maccabaeus 'triumph (166-161 B.C.) over the Hellenizing schemes of Antiochus IV.
Robert J. Elisberg: You Can't Handel the Truth: A Holiday Tradition 2009
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“Jason” was the name of the corrupt Hellenizing high priest who bribed Antiochus to depose Onias, the rightful High Priest and give the Job to Jason.
First Orthodox Jew Elected to New Hampshire Legislature | Jewschool 2006
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Syrian royals bent on Hellenizing the region had desacralized the Temple in Jerusalem and were moving an idol of Zeus into Jewish villages, a Jew made a sacrifice at the alter of Zeus and all heck broke loose in the town.
Archive 2006-12-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2006
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