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Endnote 4 - Did Paul Commit Suicide?

Philo, The Embassy to Gaius 236.

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Endnote 3 - Did Paul Commit Suicide?

The best study of suicide in Greco-Roman antiquity is by Rudolf Hirzel, Der Selbstmord (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967). Of the enormous literature on the subject, I mention only a few noteworthy studies: Alfredo Alvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 45–75; Yolanda Grisé, Le Suicide dans la Rome antique Montreal: Bellarmin, 1982); and John M. Rist, Stoic Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1969), pp. 233–255.

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Endnote 2 - Did Paul Commit Suicide?

See further Jacques Bels, “La mort volontaire dans l’oeuvre de saint Augustin,” Revue de l‘histoire des religions 187 (1975), pp. 147–180.

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Endnote 1 - Did Paul Commit Suicide?

The relevant texts by Augustine are Against Gaudentius (a Donatist bishop) and City of God 1.17–27.

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Endnote 10 - Responses to Jew-Hatred

“Two peoples,” shnei goyim (Genesis 25:23) was also read by the rabbis as shnei gaiim, two proud ones, and was applied not only to great kings that both Rome and Israel had, but also to great and proud sages like Antoninus and Rabbi Judah the Prince (B. Talmud, Berachot 57b; Avodah Zarah 11a).

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Endnote 9 - Responses to Jew-Hatred

We follow in our quotes (with minor changes) the edition of Midrash Rabbah, translated into English, with notes, glossary and indices, under the editorship of H. Freedman and Maurice Simon, The Soncino Press.

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Endnote 8 - Responses to Jew-Hatred

There is, of course, much more midrashic material on the subject. Our selection is but a sampling from two chapters of Genesis Rabbah. Even in this volume there is another, very interesting cluster of Midrashim dealing with the confrontation of Esau and Jacob (chapters 75–78), but we shall not deal with them here.