CHARAX OF PERGAMUM

CHARAX OF PERGAMUM
CHARAX OF PERGAMUM (probably second half of the second century C.E.), writer of Asia Minor. In a passage extant in the geographical lexicon of the sixth-century Stephanus of Byzantium (S.V. ʿΕβραῖοι), Charax states that the appellation "Hebrew" for the Jews stems from Abramon (Abraham). A similar explanation is given by artapanus .

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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