...later, probably, as their editor Hiller von Gaertringen estimated on the basis of the lettering, at the end of the third or the beginning of the second century, the backs of the second through seventh chairs were inscribed with new texts, while the first, eighth,...

...Euergetes', who is almost certainly Ptolemy VII Euergetes), which obviously rules out a date earlier than the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCE, and obliges us to take the Simeon whom it mentions as the second of that name. Antiochus IV and...

...material until papyrus became common in the fifth century BC. The oldest Greek parchment known dates from the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC and was found at Dura-Europos in the Euphrates valley some seventy years ago. Tradition has it that...

...According to the "Gronigen" hypothesis, the Essenes were an apocalyptic movement to be traced back to the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCE. Qumran represented a split within the Essene movement when some of its members left to follow...

...that these two Pss were originally not conjoined, he further maintains that Ps 106 was composed at the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCE. There are two reasons for this: Ps 106 is probably dependent on 1 Chr 16, not vice versa, and,...

...Book) were pre-Maccabean.16The paleographic analysis showed that copies of these documents went back to the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCT.. The actual composition miglu have occurred even earlier. The Aramaic fragments also demonstrated...

...72..82, is attested in fragments of four manuscripts from Qumran. The earliest of these dates from the end of the third or the beginning of the second century and so is the earliest of the Enoch manuscripts. The Aramaic work represented in these fragments was...

...reaction to the process of Hellenization. The oldest manuscript of the Book of Astronomy went back "to the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCE" and the Book of the Watchers was already attested in its final shape by "the first half of the...

...the diaspora-Jews, probably in Alexandria. Concerning the date of the translation it may be set to the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BCE93 Thackeray and Arieti94 find it probable that the whole of the 12-prophet-book was translated...

...excludes a date to the third century. Themelis' suggestion, that the activities of Damophon took place in the end of the third or the beginning of the second century, is based on an inscription, the precise date of which is uncertain. See Themelis (1993a, 24-40; 1993b,...