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  • But scholars of to-day are agreed that the right 'hellenized' name for some primitive peoples of Africa is

    Laudator Temporis Acti 2009

  • There was a first century Jew named Ribi Yehoshua, from Natzrat hellenized to Nazareth.

    Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Up James F. McGrath 2009

  • Syrian rule were divided into orthodox and hellenized

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • Through a series of accommodations between these hellenized Jews, represented by Jason, and their

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • Americans become the hellenized Jews, the French remain in the role of the Syrian oppressors, and the English find themselves cast as the orthodox Jews.

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • 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

  • Scottish Jacobites and France becomes comparable to that of the alliance between the hellenized Jews and their Syrian rulers.

    Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta 2006

  • A vast number of small bodies of worshipers of local deities, with their various rituals and religious customs, had thus been broken up, or at least brought into contact with each other and partially modified and hellenized.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Bishop when the Patriarch commanded him to permit the Serbian priests now and then to celebrate a Slav service, "there are no Serbs but merely Greeks" (in which official terminology the Serbs were included) "and hellenized Vlachs." ...

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

  • But this is not the case; they have become very hellenized, although it is true that there are some who call themselves Greek and who, besides having no such mixture in their veins, cannot speak a word of the Greek language.

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

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