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Apollonius was sent with orders to hellenize Jerusalem by extirpating the native population and by peopling the city with strangers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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This was the climax of a movement to hellenize the Jews, begun with the king's approval by a party among the Jewish aristocracy, who were in favour of breaking down the wall of separation between Jew and Gentile and of adopting Greek customs.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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In addition to this peaceful permeation of the Hebraic by the Greek genius, formal efforts were made from time to time, both in the political and the philosophical sphere to hellenize the Jews altogether.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Antiochus's chief ambitions was also to hellenize all his subjects, and the Jews alone offered opposition to the realization of this ambition.
The Makers and Teachers of Judaism Charles Foster Kent 1896
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How far in the event did those Greek and Macedonian rulers, philhellenic Iranian princes and others, hellenize West Asia?
The Ancient East 1894
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His hostile measures against the Jews, whom he tried to hellenize by sheer force, resulted in the Machabean rising (see
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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