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LIBERTINES, SYNAGOGUE OF THE

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 543 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LIBERTINES, SYNAGOGUE OF THE , a section of the Hellenistic
Jews
  who attacked Stephen (Acts vi. 9). The passage reads,
rives
  rCev iK Trs 7vva7'w')' s rq"s Xeyoi.ii1eqr Aq(3eprivwv, Kai KvpItVQLwV Kai 'A)t Eavbp&Wv, Kai raw 6 rd KtXIKLas Kai 'Autos, and
opinion
  is divided as to the number of synagogues here named. The probability is that there are three, corresponding to the geographical regions involved, (1) Rome and Italy, (2) N.E. Africa, (3)
Asia
 
Minor
 . In this case " the
Synagogue
  of the Libertines " is the assembly of " the Freedmen " from Rome, descendants of the
Jews
  enslaved by Pompey after his conquest of Judaea 63 n.c. If, however, we take AL/3eprivwv Kai Keprtvaiwv Kai 'AXe avbp&wv closely together, the first name must denote the
people
  of some city or
district
 . The obscure town Libertum (inferred from the title Episcopus Libertinensis in connexion with the synod of Carthage, A.D. 411) is less likely than the
reading
  (Ag3vwv or) Ag3uarivwv underlying certain Armenian versions and Syriac commentaries. The Greek towns lying west from Cyrene would naturally be called Libyan. In any case the interesting point is that these returned Jews, instead of being liberalized by their residence abroad, were more tenacious of Judaism and more
bitter
  against Stephen than those who had never left Judaea.


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