Hadrian against Bar Kosiba, Apostate of Hellenism
- Pedro Giménez de Aragón Sierra Pablo de Olavide University
Abstract
The Letter of Simeon ben Kosiba to Jesus ben Galgula tells us about his religious policy and the Letter of Soumaios tells us about his linguistic and cultural policy. In this essay the anti-Hellenistic ideology of Bar Kosiba is connected with Adriano’s philo-Hellenism and with his religious policy, in the process of separation from Judaism and Christianity. Just at this time appeared the neologism “christianismós” in the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch.
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