Judea i Judejczycy w "Geografii" Strabona
Streszczenie
In Strabo’s Geography we can find not much informations about Judaea and Judaeans. He described them and their country in the second part of his 16th book, in chapters 35-46. The relation is coherent and comprises three parts: (1) story about Moses’ arrival and how he had formed the body politic, (2) report about events of the 1th century B.C., (3) short description of the land. The territory which belonged to Judaeans, as Strabo wrote, have lain in Coele Syria. Their country was separated from the sea by Phoenicia, to the south and south-west have lived Arabians, and on the east there were the mountains of Libanus and Antilibanus. Their main city was Jerusalem. All the people who lived in this territory - Jews, Arabians, Egyptians, Phoenicians - were called by Strabo Judaeans. Among them there was a group of people which was connected with the temple of Jerusalem. They were far removed from the others inhabitants. For example they have abstained from flesh, and circumcised children. These customs Strabo has called superstition.