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LIBERTINES, SYNAGOGUE OF THE

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIBERTINES, See also:SYNAGOGUE OF THE , a See also:section of the Hellenistic See also:Jews who attacked See also:Stephen (Acts vi. 9). The passage reads, See also: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 See also:opinion is divided as to the number of synagogues here named. The See also:probability is that there are three, corresponding to the See also:geographical regions involved, (1) See also:Rome and See also:Italy, (2) N.E. See also:Africa, (3) See also:Asia See also:Minor. In this See also:case " the Synagogue of the Libertines " is the See also:assembly of " the Freedmen " from Rome, descendants of the Jews enslaved by See also:Pompey after his See also:conquest of See also:Judaea 63 n.c. If, however, we take AL/3eprivwv Kai Keprtvaiwv Kai 'See also:AXe avbp&wv closely together, the first name must denote the See also:people of some See also:city or See also:district. The obscure See also:town Libertum (inferred from the See also:title Episcopus Libertinensis in connexion with the See also:synod of See also:Carthage, A.D. 411) is less likely than the See also:reading (Ag3vwv or) Ag3uarivwv underlying certain Armenian versions and See also:Syriac commentaries. The See also:Greek towns lying See also:west from See also:Cyrene would naturally be called Libyan. In any case the interesting point is that these returned Jews, instead of being liberalized by their See also:residence abroad, were more tenacious of Judaism and more See also:bitter against Stephen than those who had never See also:left Judaea.

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