[Steppes] Challenge

[ED Reese]

Excellent place to look -- 12th century bibles. I'm looking forward to what 
you find out -- and will continue my own snooping.

Esther

At 06:16 PM 7/17/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Greetings unto your Grace and all others reading these words.
>Duchess Willow wrote:
>
> > I think the Catholic Bible calls them Greeks So the information a 12th
> > century person would have was that Judas Maccabbeus was fighting Greeks.
>
>It is clear in my Douay, cross-referenced with my Vulgate, that Judas
>Maccabbeus battled, and eventually was defeated by, the Syrians.  It is also
>clear that they did not consider these the same as the Greeks; the Latin terms
>are "Syriae" and "Graeciae".
>
>I will check in the libraries at UTA and SMU tomorrow, to see if they have
>facsimile copies of twelfth-century Bibles.
>
>In my scanning the text, there is no mention of symbolism associated with the
>Syrian army.  I will see if there is anything in the "Golden Legend".
>
>--Serena
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